150 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



l"IOP<t>YPl'flN. The Purple Gallinule, Porphyrio hyacinthus, Temm. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 707, 881, 1249. Arist. fr. 272, ap. Athen. ix. 

 388 C, d cr^iSaiwroSa avTov eivai, e\eiv Te XP^H 1 * 1 <vdveov, o~Ke\r) fxaKpd, 

 pvyXOS r\pyp.evov etc ttjs Ke(pa\rjs CpoiviKovv, peyedos dXeKTpvovos. <nop.ayov 

 8' e^ei \enTov, bib t5>v \ap.j3avop,£voi)V els tov noba TapneveTai jxixpas tos 

 yfrcopiibas, KairTdav be nivei (H. A. viii. 6, 595 ; Plin. x. (46) 63 morsu 

 bibit). TrevrabaKTvkos re (?) &>v tov p.eaov e;(ei p.eyio-Tov. Dion. De Avib. 

 i. 29, a similar description, epvOpbv avrco to pdp.(pos ('art, ko\ Kara KecpaXijs 

 OKTirep riva ttTKov fyci, onoiovs oi to^gtcu Tlepcrat (pepovo~iv. Arist. H. A. ii. 

 17? 5°9 Q&X*" f xaK P 0V *X €L ' °^ Tf T0V npdXofiov e^et ovre tov aTcpLn^ov evpvv 

 aWa acpobpa paicpov. Schol. Ar. Av. 1249 Kvdveoi elai. Arist. De Inc. 

 IO. 710. Callim. ap. Athen. l.C. ttjv Tpo<pr)V Xap.jSdveiv tov iropcpvploiva ev 

 o~kot(0 KaTabvofievoVj Iva p.r) tis avTov 6edar]Tai' e'^dpaivei yap tovs npocriovTas 

 avroii Trj Tpo<pj}. Ael. iii. 42 wpaioTaTOS re ap.a Kai (pepcovvpLVTaTos eari 

 £a>oiv, Kai x ai P €L Kovi6p.(vos, &c. According to Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. 

 1. c, it inhabits Libya and is there held sacred. According to Plin. 

 x. 63, it inhabits Commagene (Asia Min.) and a yet nobler sort (x. 69) 

 the Balearic Islands. 



A bird of lofty morals and great vigilance, Polemon ap. Athen. 1. c, 

 Ael. iii. 42, v. 28, vii. 25, viii. 20, xi. 15, Dion. De Avib. i. 29. 



An easy mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 21. 



The descriptions in Arist. fr. 272 and Dionysius clearly refer to the 

 Purple Gallinule: that in Arist. H. A. ii. 17 is supposed by some 

 (I think needlessly) to apply to the Flamingo, the Gallinule not having 

 a very long neck. The bird occurs in Egypt and neighbouring coun- 

 tries : it is rare in Greece, but inhabits Lake Copais and Lake Dystos 

 in Euboea (Erhard, I.e., also Naumannia, 1858, p. 21), though, accord- 

 ing to other authorities (Von der Miihle, Heldreich, Kriiper), nothing 

 is known of its occurrence in Greece in recent times. 



nOY"noi. A late word for the Hoopoe ; vide s. v. Iito^. 



Anon. De Avibus et earum Virtutibus in Medicina (MS. cit. Du 

 Cange, Gloss. S. V. KOvKOv(pos), eiro^r opveov ev depi noToop-evov' ovtos KaXelrai 



KOVKOV(pOS, Kai 7TOV7TOS. 



nPE'lBYI. A name for the Wren = Tpoxi'\os, Hesych., Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 1 1, 615. In this word one is much tempted to suspect a trans- 

 position of letters, and to suggest, as a conjectural emendation, 

 airipfivs ; cf. also S.vv. o-irepyus, (nropyiXos. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 noXepnos be ko\ 6 irpeo-ftvs Ka.Xovp.evos ko\ yaXr/ 

 Kai Kopwvr) [777 yXat'Kt']' to. yap wa ml tovs veoTTOvs KaTeaOiovaiv avTtjS. In 

 the preceding sentence 8pgtXot and y\ai>£ are mentioned as hostile 

 to one another. (Here Sundevall supposes the Jackdaw to be meant, 

 on account of its egg-eating propensities, but the passage is mytho- 

 logical, not prosaic.) 



