154 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ZEMI'PAMIX* 7rfpio-Tfpa opetos, 'EAXi/wort, Hesych. Cf. Diodor. ii. 6. 

 Vide s. v. irepioTepd. 



lE'PKOI- iWeKTpvvv, Ka\ aKeKTopiBes aeXices, Hesych. Baethgen, De vi 

 et signif. Galli, Diss. Inaug., Gotting. 1887, p. 10, collates fiknos, 

 a word inscribed together with the image of a Cock on a Cretan 

 vase (Roulez, Choix de vases de Leide, p. 40, nr. 13), and this in 

 turn with rA^ai/os, s. flavor, 6 Zevs napa Kprjaiv, Hesych., inscribed 

 also on a coin of Phaestus (Bull. Inst. Arch., 184 1, p. 174); further 

 he suggests a kindred reference to the opvis nepaticos, in the corrupt 

 Hesychian gloss, 2e\xpol' llepo-ai. A coin of Phaestus figured in 

 the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins (Crete, p. 63, pi. xv. 10), bears the same 

 inscription and shows the god seated holding a Cock on his knee. 



lE'PTHI* yepcwos, lloXXvpprjuioi, Hesych. 



IIAAENAPl'l* rroioy opvts irapa KaXXipd^co, Hesych. 



Schn. in Arist. H. A. viii. 3 (vol. ii. p. 596) suspects this bird to be 

 identical with the corrupt icaXiSpis, s. ajcaySpis, s. aicaXiSpis, of 

 Arist., and suggests <n<aXu8pis as an emendation for both. Cf. 

 also aiaXis. 



IIAAl'l. A bird so-called from its cry. Didymus ap. Athen. ix. 

 392 f. Also Hesych. 



Il'NTHI. Vide S. v. fxaKeaiKpaj'os. 



IIH'AAPOr nepdig, Uepyaioi, Hesych. 



IITAPl'2. An unknown bird. v'vrrrf fj vvv olpai \eyop.evt] airapls, Suid.: 

 cf. Zonar. 1645, Lob. Proll. p. 30. 



IITTA'KH, Philostorg. H. E. iii. n. (utt<xkos, Ael. xvi. 15, Arrian. 

 Ind. i. 8, &c. Vide s.v. \|mTaic<5s. 



1\ TTAZ = criTTaKOS. criTTas, opvis noios' evioi de rov yjnTTCiKou \eyovaiv, 

 Hesych. 



Il'TTH. (Some MSS. have o-iWi; in Arist. H. A. ix. 1.) With o-iVth; 

 cf. Xmrrj, q. v. Also tnra' 6 8pvoKo\a\p- iBviKws, Hesych. We might 

 conjecture a form ^ittt], akin to O. H. G. speh, speht, specht, 

 Lith. spakas, Sk. pika, &c. 

 A bird with fabulous attributes, allied to the Woodpecker; opvis 

 noios, ol 8e dpvoKo\d7rTT]s, Hesych. Usually identified with the 

 Nuthatch, Sitta europaea or S. syriaca, which latter very similar 

 species is commoner in Greece (Von der Miihle, Lindermayer) ; 



