1 68 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TETPA'AGN- opveov n, 'aXkoaos, Hesych. Cf. ibid. reTp^d-iy arjbova. 

 See Schmidt in loc, and Bergk, P. Lyr. Gr. iii. p. 192, fr. 154 

 (116). 



TETPAfON* 6pvi6dpi6v ti, Adiccoves, Hesych. Cf. TeTpd&wv. 



TE'TPAE. A doubtful word, applied to the Guinea-fowl. 



Ar. Av. 885, Eust. 1205, 27. 



A discussion concerning the identity of this bird in Athen. ix. (c. 58). 

 398, C-f. Alex. Mynd. ibid, re'rpa£ to peyedos laos (nrepfxokoya), to xpcopa 

 Kepapeovs, pvirapdis a-riypais kcu fieyaXai? ypappals ttolklXos, Kapnocpdyos, 

 orav uoTOKrj t)e, rerpa^ei tjj (pavrj. [The disputants here seem to suppose 

 that Alexander Myndius referred to some very little bird, twos 

 tcov o-pucpoTciTcov.] Epicharm., ibid. Terpayas o-n*pp.aToX6yovs re KayXaas 

 <TVKaXLt)as. . . . ipcodioL . . . rerpayeff re [kcu] crneppaToXoyoi. Athen. 1. c. 

 apa t)e ravra Xeyovros civtov, elcrrjXde tis cfiepcov eV r<» TaXdpco t6v TeTpctKa. 

 rjv Se to p.ev peyedos virep aXeKTpvova tov peyuTTOv, to 8e eidos nopcpvpiavt 

 7rapa.7rXr)cnos' kcu cltto tS>v cotcov eKarepcodev ei^e Kpepdpeva cocnrep oi ciXck- 

 Tpvoves to. KaXXaia' ^apeia 8' rjv r) cpcovr). BavpaaavroiV ovv rjpcov to evavOes 

 tov opvidos per' ov noXv kcu eWeuao-peVos- 7raprjv€)(8q, kcu to. Kpea avrov 

 rjv 7rapanXf]a-ia [rols ttjs peydXrjs] crTpovdov, rjv kcu avTrjv noXXdnis Kare- 

 daio~dp.e0a. 



According to Larensius (ap. Athen. 1. c), he had seen the bird and 

 heard the name in Mysia and Paeonia : he probably alluded to some 

 one of the Grouse family ; cf. tetraon in Plin. x. (22) 29. The bird 

 brought into the banquet was evidently a Guinea fowl, the descrip- 

 tion given of the colour, wattles, &c. being characteristic. The account 

 in Alex. Mynd. is not capable of identification : it also may possibly 

 refer to the Guinea-fowl, which is not mentioned under the name 

 peXeaypi's by this author. Sundevall supposes that Alex. Mynd. alluded 

 to some small bird, perhaps the Whinchat, Pratincola rubetra, L., 

 and that the same was identical with rerpi^ and oupd£, J. G. Schneider 

 (Anmerk. z. d. Eel. Phys. p. 45) conjectures the Little Bustard, Otis 

 tetrax, L., on whose cry at breeding-time, cf. Buffon, iv. p. 55. 



The name occurs also in Nemesian, i. 128, Anthol. Lat. 883 (ed. 

 Riese), in a passage, however, which adds nothing definite to our 

 knowledge : Tetracem Romae quem nunc vocitare taracem Coeperunt, 

 avium est multo stultissima ; namque Cum pedicas necti sibi contem- 

 plaverit adstans, Immemor ipse sui tamen in dispendia currit . . . 

 Hie prope Pentinum radicibus Apennini Nidificat, patulis quae se 

 sol obiicit agris, Persimilis cineri dorsum, maculosaque terga Inficiunt 

 pullae cacabantis imagine notae. 



TE'TPAI. A bird-name, Schol. in Ar. Av. 168. Probably = T€Tpa£. 



