IEMIPAMII— IKftO* 155 



IITTH {continued). 



Mod. Gk. (TKaXoddprjs, (r^vpiKTrjs, and To-onavonovXi, i. e. the little 

 shepherd (Heldr.). 



Arist. H. A. IX. I, 609 b d(Tto noXepiov' Karaypvei yap to. am tov derov : 

 ibid. 17, 616 b pdxipos, ttjv 8e bidvoiav evOinros Ka\ tvdrjpoiv /cut evfiioiTOs, 

 leal Xeyerai (pappdiceia aval dia to noXvidpis eivai' noXvyouos Se Kal cvtckvos, 



Ktt\ £7 vXoKOTTOVO'a. 



Callim. Fr. 173 (in Etym. M.) 6 8' rjXebs old' eVl trlmfv fiXe^us. 



A good omen to lovers, Schol. in Ar. Av. 705 ; fr. ap. Suid. iya> pev 



co AevKinnr) de£ia (tlttt). 

 21 TTOI* crirroi/, oi peu yXavKa' 77 Kio~o~av' 17 iepaica, Hesych. 



[a-LTTi], a-LTras and ctittos are all doubtful and corrupt words. They 

 are probably akin to the equally corrupt and obscure nine*, which bird, 

 like 0-ittt), is allied to the woodpeckers and hostile to the eagle.] 



IKAAl'APII. (MSS. have KaXidpis, o-Kavbpis, o~KaXi8pes. Schneider sug- 

 gests <TKaXv8pis. Possibly identical with onaXei'Spis, q.v.) 

 An unknown bird ; taken by Belon and later writers for a species 

 of Sandpiper, e. g. To/anus calidris, auctt., the Redshank : but 

 any one whom it pleases may interpret it as a Wagtail, whose 

 gray plumage is enlivened with a ' noiKiXia ' of yellow. 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 h to ovpalov nivel, rroiKiXiap e%ei, to 8' oXou 

 anodoeides (mentioned with axoiviXos, KiyicXos, and nvyapyos). 



XKl'AAOI* IktIvos, Hesych. Cf. PcWkiXXos. 



XKl'vp. Vide s. v. cnrap<lcnoi>. 



IKOAO'nAE. Generally supposed, and by all the older commentators, 

 to be identical with dcncaXcoiras, the Woodcock. Mod. Gk. 

 dcr/caXd7ra/caff, opviOoaKaXLba (Coray), t-vXoKOTTa (Heldr.), t-vXopvida 

 (Bik.), pneKaTaa ( = Fr. becasse). With a-KoX-ona^, cf. Gk. o--k6X-o\js, 

 o-KilXo^, (nrdXag : rt. of L. culler, &c. 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614 iw\ devbpov ov Ka8i£ei, dXX' eVi ttjs yrjs. Nemesian. 



Aucup. fr. 21 (in Wernsdorf's Poet. Lat. Min.) praeda est facilis et 



amoena Scolopax. 



[andXat or aKaXo-^ in Theophr. De Sign. Temp. p. 439, ed. Heinsii, 



is sometimes taken to apply not to the mole but to this bird : cf. 



J. G. Schneider, in Arist., vol. iv. p. 131.] 



IKft'»l>. Etym. doubtful. The derivation from cr/ceTrrco is not more 

 certain than the older one from cr/coWro) (Athen. and Aelian). 

 The o- may be a late prefix, from the false analogy with o-KomTeiv. 

 According to Alex. Myndius, ap. Athen. ix. 391 b, Homer wrote 



