I46 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riEPIITEPA {continued). 



How a Pigeon caused a war between Chaonians and Illyrians, Ael. 

 xi. 27. 



The Dove of Deucalion ; Plut. Mor. ii. 968 F nepia-repav c'k rrjs XdpvaKos 

 d<piefiePT]v, 8r)Xa>pa yeveadai x €l H-^ V0S f*** *1m» ndXiv ev8vop.evr]v, evdlas 8e 

 d7ronTdaav: cf. Lucian, Syr. Dea, c. 12, Apollod. i. 7, 2 (vide s.v. -ireXeia). 



The Pigeon in Medicine. — For references to the therapeutic value 

 of Pigeons' dung, flesh, blood, feathers, and other parts in cases of 

 poisoning, burns, ulcers, jaundice, and most other ailments, see Galen, 

 De Simpl. Med. Temp, x, also Plin. iii. (6) 12, xxii. (25) 58, xxix. (6) 39, 

 and xxx, passim. 



Fables. — nepia-Tepa Kal koXoios, Fab. Aes. (ed. Halm) 201 b. nepiaTepa 

 Kal Kopavrj, ibid. 358. ircpi(TT€pa Kal pvppt)^, ibid. 296. nepia-repa. 81- 

 yJAaxrn, ibid. 357. 



See also, in addition to articles cited s.v. irAcia, T. Watters, Chinese 

 Notions about Pigeons and Doves, N. China Br., R. As. Soc, iv. 

 pp. 225-242, 1867. In this paper various resemblances are shown to 

 exist between classical superstitions and Chinese popular notions, an 

 important subject concerning which too little information is accessible. 

 Among other points, the writer states that in Chinese legend the Dove 

 is often confused with the Cuckoo, that the former as well as the latter 

 bird is said to metamorphose into the Hawk, and that the Dove is said 

 to lay in the Magpie's nest : these facts may have some bearing on 

 the obscure Aristotelian statements referred to above (s.v. kokku£) 

 concerning the nesting of the Cuckoo in the nest of <j>dvj/. 



riEPIITEPA* MHAI'NH. An Indian Green Fruit-pigeon, Treron sp. 

 Daemach. ap. Athen. 394 e; Ael. V. H. i. 15. Also irepia-Tepal co^pai', 

 Ael. xv. 14, brought as presents to the Indian king ; da-nep Xeyovai p.r]re 

 rjp,epovo-6ai prpe nore npavveo-Oat. Cf. S.v. ireXeias ^AwpoTTTiXos. 



nEPKNO'riTEPOI = opetireXapyos = uiraieTOS. A kind of Vulture. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 618 b XevKr] Ke(paXr), peyedei 8e p.eyi<TTos, irTepa 

 be fipaxyTaTCi, Kai ovpcmvyiov 7rpop.r]Kes 7 yvnl op.oio$. ope'ineXapyos KaXelrai 

 Kal vnaieros, ohel 8' ak(rr n to. p.€V koko. ravra %x<av rols aXXoiy, t<ov 

 6° dyaOcov ov8ev' aXiaKerai yap Kai 6\a>Kerai vno KopaKcov Kal toov aXXcov. 

 (3api>s yap Kal KaKofiios Kal ra redvecora (pepcav, neivrj $' del Kal /3oa Kal 

 p.iwpi(ei : cf. Plin. x. (1) 3. 



Of the three names, not one occurs elsewhere, save vnaleros, Boios 

 ap. Anton. Lib. c. 20 (loc. corr.). The description is insufficient, but 

 agrees fairly, except as regards size, with the Egyptian Vulture ; in 

 which case the black and white plumage may explain irepKvonTepos, 

 and, together perhaps with the stork-like nest, dpe'ineXapyos. 



Sundevall identifies nepwonrepos with the Lammergeier, Gypaetas 

 darda/us, L., with which the epithet XevKOKecpaXos agrees ; but for this 



