134 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riEAEIA {continued). 

 that fed the infant Zeus, to the dove in other Zeus-myths (cf. Athen. 

 ix. 395 a, Ael. V. H. i. 15) and to the doves of Dione. If we seek 

 to get further back, we enter the mist of Pleiad-symbolism. 



It has been suggested by Landseer, Sabaean Researches, p. 186, 

 from the study of an Assyrian symbolic monument, that the stars 

 which Conon converted into the Coma Berenices (Hygin. P. A. ii. 24, 

 cf. Ideler, Sternnamen, p. 295) and which lie in Leo opposite to the 

 Pleiades in Taurus, were originally constellated as a Dove ; and that 

 this constellation, whose first stars rise with the latest of those of 

 Argo, and whose last rise simultaneously with the hand of the Hus- 

 bandman, links better than the Pleiad into the astronomical Deluge- 

 myth. The case rests on very little evidence, and indeed is an 

 illustration of the conflicting difficulties of such hypotheses : but it 

 is deserving of investigation were it only for the reason that the Coma 

 Berenices contains seven visible stars (Hygin.), and the Pleiad six, 

 a faint hint at a possible explanation of the lost Pleiad. 



TreXeioGpejjLjjLwj', an epithet of Salamis (according to the Schol. and 

 Hesych., but see Paley and other commentators), Aesch. Pers. 309 ; cf. 

 7ro\vTpf)poov (s. v. Tp-qpwy) ; also the Insula Columbaria, Plin. iii. (6) 12. 



Proverb. — rjfievq neXeids, a ' pigeon,' a simpleton : Eustath. Horn, 

 p. I333 7rapoifjLia iw\ tcov aiikov error <ov to rjpeyt] jreXeids dia to evrjdes tov 

 ftov : Suid., Hesych., Phot, &c. 



In preparing this article on neXeia, and the other cognate articles 

 on the various Pigeon-names, I have drawn much from the learned 

 pamphlet of Dr. Lorentz, Die Taube im Alterthume, Wurzen, 1886, 

 as well as from the earlier compilation of Hehn, in his Culturpflanzen 

 und Hausthiere. 



nEAEIA'2 XAflPO'nTIAOI. An Indian Green Fruit-Pigeon, probably 

 Crocopus chlorogaster, Blyth, cf. Val. Ball, Ind. Antiq., xiv. 

 p. 305, 1885. 



Ael. xvi. 2 (pair) riff av npooTOV 8(aadp.€vos f Kai ovk e^cai/ eiTicrTrjprjv 

 opviBoyviopova a-'iTTaKov dvai Kai ov neXeidda. X e ^ r ) ^* ex ovo ~ l Kai °" K ^'? 

 roiff "EWrjo-i nepdi^L tt)v xpoav npoaeoiKora. 



HEAEKA'N. The Pelican, Pelecanus cri'spus, Bruch., and P. ono- 

 crotalus, L., which latter is rare in Greece (Von der Mtihle). 

 Mod. Gk. neXeicdvi (Von der M.), o-aKKds (Turk, a water-carrier), 

 TVfnravids. Onocrotalus, Plin. x. 47 (66). Vide s. vv. f3cu/3uicos, 



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