148 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riHNEAOO' {continued). 



Hesych., and from its occurrence in some MSS. for the latter in 

 Plin. x. (22) 29, it seems probable that both names are identical, and 

 possible that both are corruptions of a foreign (Egyptian ?) word. The 

 association of di£ and nr]peXo^ in an obscure and faulty Aristotelian 

 passage, may be a mere confusion arising out of the story of Hermes 

 visiting Penelope in the form of a goat (cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. p. 502) ; 

 .in which case dig should disappear from the list of bird-names. 



rihfPIE' Trepdig, Kpyres, Hesych. 



nfKOX. A Woodpecker. \jaX. picus \ said to be an Oscan word. 



Strabo, V. 2 ttIkov yap rqv opviv tovtov ovopd^ovai, ko\ vopl^ovaiv "Apecos 

 Upov. See also Dion. Halic. i. 14. Cf. Ovid, F. iii. 37, &c. Cf. also 

 Grimm's D. Myth. p. 388, Creuzer's Symb. iii. 676, iv. 368. 



nfnoi s. miriros. A young chicken, Athen. ix. 368 f. (Casaub. for 



Imrovs). 

 mnn' (MSS. have also iriira, iriiros, mirpa. Some editors read unrw, 

 cf. I'ttttt)). The Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, 

 Picus major and minor, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 "XXa & eWi o-KVinocfrdya, a tovs aKvliras dqpfvovra 

 £fj pdXio-ra, oiov 7rnru> rj re pei(a>v Kai fj eXaTrav' koXovcti de rives dpcporepa 

 ravTa hpvoKoXdiTTas' opoia S' dXXrjXois Kai (pcovrjv e^ova'iv opoiav, nXfjV 

 pe'ifa to p.€i(ov. veperai 5* dp.(poTepa ravra npos rd £vXa npoaireTopeva. 

 Ibid. ix. 21, 617 ra o~KeXr) /3pa^ea [e^ 61 ° Kvavos\ rfj ivlncd napopoia. Ibid. 

 ix. I, 609 : hostile to ttoiklXls, Kopvdav, xXopeiV ra yap am KareaOlovo-iv 

 dXXrjXcov, and to epatdios (cf. Hesych.) : ra yap rid Kareadiei Kai tovs veoTTOvs 

 rov epcodiov. 



Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. 14 ^ W pfjtrip avTwv iyevero KvnvoXoyos 

 TrtTrd)' Trpos TaiTTjv aercS noXepos €<tti Kai epa>§i<p' Kardyvvai yap avrav ra 

 <od, KOTTTovaa ttjv dpvv did tovs Kvlnas (cf. <uttt], q. v.). 



Lycoph. Cass. 476 avr\ irurovs aKopniov Xcuuco cnrda-as. Tzetz. in Lye. 

 (edit. Steph. p. 83) ninai opveop tart OaXda-cnov evTrperres Ka\ eveiftes. 



The above identification, setting aside the statement of Tzetzes, 

 depends solely on the existence of two species of Spotted Woodpecker, 

 similar in appearance, but unequal in size. 



m'TYAOI- dpviddpiov ti tiypiov, Hesych. Also iriiruXos, Schol. Theocr. 



x. 50. 

 ni'<t>YrE (v. 1. Tri<f>iy£, m<|>T)f) : iri<|>Xi§, Suid. An unknown bird = 

 KopvhaXos = nlcpaXXos, s. 7ri(paXXis, Hesych. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 610 nicpiyg Kai dpnr) /col Iktivos (piXoi. Mentioned 

 also by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx, in a fabled metamorphosis, together 

 with apni], apTvao-os, &c. Cf. Etym. M. 673 ; Choerob. Cram. Anecd. 



