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I1EAEKAN {continued). 

 Epiphan. (ad Physiol, c. xx) Hexaem. c. viii eori yap fj neXeKav <pi\6- 

 reKvov opveov Ttapa rcavra to. opvea' 17 de OrfXeia Ka6e£erai ev tjj veoTTia 

 <f)vXdo~crovara to. reava, Kal nepiOdXiTei aira. dcnra£op.evT], kcu KoXa$>i£ovo-a ev 

 (piXrjpaTL onus rats irXevpats KarepyaCerai, Kal reAeuraJor Kal pe6' rjpepas 

 rpeis Trapayevopevov tov appevos 7reXeKavos,Kal evpiaKovTOS avra redvqKora 

 oXocpvperat rfjv napblav Xiav' irenX^ypevos de tov tv6vov KoXacpt^et rqv it)iav 

 nXevpdv, Kal oiras avrfj f/U7rotet, Kal Karappel aifia eVicrTa^coz/ iirl ras 7rXr)yas 

 tS>v Te6vj]KOTG>v veocro-cov, kcu ovtcos faonoiovvrai : cf. also Ps.-Hieron. ad 

 Praes. de Cer. Pasch. v. p. 149 (ed. 1693), Isid. Orig. xii. c. 7, Glycas, 

 Annal. i. p. 44, S. August, in Ps. cii, &c, &c. A confusion with 

 certain Woodpecker-myths (cf. ireXeicas) may be one of the various 

 sources of these corrupt but popular stories. 

 riEAEKA"!, s. TrekeKdv. A Woodpecker. Mod. Gk. neXeKavos, devdpo- 



cpdyos, TcriKkiddpa. Vide S. W. SpuoKoXdiTTTjs, kcXcos, onreXeKTOS. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 882, 1155 et seq. Cf. s. v. neXeKav, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 10, 614 b ol t)e 7ri\cKap€s oi ev toIs noranols, as indicating that the 

 same word applied to the two different birds. Cf. Suid. (verb. q. del. 

 Gaisford), eon 8e eidos opveov, rpvnovp to. devbpa, a(f> ou Kal devdpOKo- 

 Xdnrrjs nakurat : also Hesych., s. v. TrtXeK&v. 



In the version of the Itylus-myth, given by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 

 c. xi, Polytechnus, the husband of Aedon, is metamorphosed into the 

 bird neXeKav, the brother of Aedon being transmuted at the same time 

 into 'ino^r. With the stories of the Woodpecker breaking open con- 

 fined places, referred to above, s. vv. SpuoKoXaTrrrjs and eiroi|/, under 

 the heading of the ' Samir-legend,' cf. the myth of Aiowaos neXeKvs 

 (R. Brown, Dionysiac Myth, i. p. 332, ii. p. 81). 



Hostile to oprv£, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, De An. 684 : this statement is 

 generally referred to the Pelican, but it more probably refers to the 

 Woodpecker, that bird and the Quail being both alike associated with 

 solar myths. 



nEAEKfNOI. 



In Dion. De Avib. ii. 6, and probably therefore also in Ar. Av. 882, 

 a Pelican. 



riEAHA'P* Trepio-Ttpas Kal 7repaiKr}s to rjpio~v' AaKcoves. Hesych. (verb. dub. : 



cf. Schmidt in Hesych.). 



riE'AAOI. The Heron. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b 6 neXXos ^oXen-co? cvvd£erai Kal ox^vei' Kpd£et t€ 

 yap Kal alpa, as (paaiv, dcf>ir)aiv i* tcov o(p6aXp.a>v o^vcov, Kal t'lktci (pavXws 

 Kal 68vvT]pu>s. noXepel 8e to7s fiXdnTovcriv, derco — apnd£ei yap avTov — Kal 

 aXa>7TfKi — (pdeipei yap clvtov ttjs vvktos — Kal Kopvdco — ra yap ma. avTov 

 kXc7T7«. Ibid. ix. 18, 616 b evprjxavos be Kal 8cnrvo(p6pos ko.1 eiraypos, 



