1$6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



IKQv|/ (continued). 



Ka>nas for o-Kamas, and Aristotle likewise : so also Speusippus ; cf. 

 Ael. xv. 28, and Cobet's note [falso dixit hoc Alexander, Casaubon 

 in Athen. ii. 358]. Doederlein, Horn. Gloss. § 2359, finds the 

 stem in Kvj3rjuais (yXavgi), Hesych., L. cucubare, &c. ; in which case 

 KiKKafirj (q. v.), and Mod. Gk. KovKovftata, would seem to be cog- 

 nate. Hesych. has also <tk6tt€s. The name resembles the cry 

 of the bird, and is in part at least onomatopoeic : cf. It. jacopo. 

 In Switzerland it is called Todtenvogel, and cries Tod, Tod, Tod, 

 Hopf. Orakelthiere, p. 102. 

 The Little Horned Owl or Scops Owl, Ephialtes scops, L. Mod. 

 Gk. k\ght<tos, xiwi/i (Erh.). 



Od. V. 66 (TK&Tres r "prices Tf TavvyXcoacroi re Kopcovcu \ elvdXicu. 



Theocr. Id. i. 134 k/;£ dpccov toI crKoiiTCS drjbocri yapvcrciivTo. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592b eXdrrcov yXavKos. Two varieties; H. A. 

 ix. 28, 617 b (TKcoTres 5' oi uev del ndaav capav elcrl, kcu kciXovvtcu deiaKcon-es, 

 kcu ovk iuBiovrai 81a to afiparoi tluaC erepoi fie ylvovrai iv'iore tov (pdivona)- 

 pov, (paivovrcu 8' e<p* fjpepav plav r) bvo to nXdcrTov, kcu dcrlv et)a>8ipoi kcu 

 aCpobpa evdoKiuovcriv' /col dicKpepovcri tS)P deiaKamcov KaXovuevoov ovtol aXXco 

 pei> as elnelv ovdevi, tco t)e nd^ei' kcu ovtoi piv elcriv acficovoi, eKelvoi Se 

 (pBeyyovTai. nepl be yevecrecos avrcov tjtis tariff ovdev wtttcu, nXrjU oti 

 toIs £e(/)upiW cpaivoPTcu. Cf. Callimachus ap. Athen. ix. 391 b ; Ael. 

 XV. 28 8ia(pepovcri Se tcov deio-KOdnu>v tco nd^ei, kui fieri 7rapcnrXi)crioi 

 Tpvyovi kcu (paTTy (vide Jacobs, in loc). 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 391 b piKpoTtpos iar\ yXavKos, k<u eVi 

 uoXvfidoCpai'ei tco ^poo/zan v7r6XevKa crTiypara (X €l ' ^° T€ ^ no T ^ v o(ppvcov 

 Trap (Karepov KpoTacpov dva(pepet. 7rrepa : cf. Ael. 1. C. 



The account given of the size of the bird and the descriptions in 

 Athenaeus and Aelian agree perfectly with the Scops Owl ; this is 

 a noisy bird, repeating its cry with monotonous persistence. But it 

 appears to spend the summer only in S. Europe, migrating to Africa 

 in winter. The passage in Aristotle is perhaps faulty in this con- 

 nexion, owing to misinterpretation of the name aeio-fccox^ as though 

 from del. Sundevall supposes the other variety to be the Short-eared 

 Owl, Strix brachyotus, a somewhat larger species, which appears 

 merely to pass through Greece on its migrations : vide infra, s.v. <5tos. 

 The bird o-koox//- was quite unknown to Pliny, x. (49) 70 ; as apparently 

 also to Hesych., who has o~<(oites' cldos opvecov, oi de koXoiovs. 



According to Metrodorus ap. Athen. I.e. dvTopxovptvovs dXio-KeaBai 

 tovs o-Ktonas. Hence o-K&y\r and o-KcoTrcvpa as the name of a dance, 

 Ael. xv. 28, Athen. ix. 391 a, xiv. 629 f, where there is a confusion 

 between o-kco\^ and o-kottos, vttoo-kottos : cf. y^°w£- See also O. Jahn, 

 Vasenbilder, p. 24 ; Rochett, J. des savans, 1837, pp. 514-517. 



