TPHPflN— TPOXIAOZ i;i 



TPIXA'l. The Song-Thrush, Turdus musicus, L. Mod. Gk. T&yXa. 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 20, 617 KixX&v eldos' d£v cpde'yycTcu' to de peyedos ocrov 

 k6ttvcJ)os. Vide s. v. Kt'x^- 



This word (an-ag Xeyopevov) was translated by Gaza pilaris (quasi a 

 Qpii;), whence our modern name Turdus pilaris, L., the Fieldfare. 

 The word survives in Mod. Gk. as TcrixXa, rfi'yXa, TtfixXa, and is pos- 

 sibly the same as rpiKxos, q. v. ; it is a parallel form to kixXtj, and is 

 the same as our thrush. [Cf. Lith. s-trazd~as (Nessl. p. 506), Russ. 

 drosd?, I eel. trast, L. turdus, &c.] 



TPOXI'AOI, s. TpoxiXos, a. (Most MSS. have Tpo X "iXos ; for other forms, 

 v. Lob. Par. 115.) Derived, in my opinion, from the root of 

 opxiXos (q. v.), and not connected with Tpex®- 

 The Wren, Troglodytes europaeus, L. Mod. Gk. KoXvpfipi, rpvno- 

 Kapvba (Erhard, Bike'las). 



Arist. H. A. ix. II, 615 Xoxpas kcu TpoayXas oiKel' dverdXaTOS de kcu. 

 dpaneTTjs kcu to rjOos dcrdevrjs, evfiioros de kcu tcxvikos' KaKcirai de kcu 

 7Tpecr(3vs kcu (BacriXevs (cf. Plin. viii. 37), dio kcu tov derov avTa cpaal 

 noXepelv: cf. ibid. ix. 1,609 b. Mentioned as an oracular bird, Plut. 

 ii. 405 C dXX' T)pzis ipcodiols olopeda kciI rpo^iXoiy Ka\ Kopa^i xPW& al 4>8ey- 

 youevois err] paivovra tov Qeov. On superstitions connected with the Wren, 

 ' The king of all birds,' &c, Dyer, Brit. Pop. Customs, 1876, p. 497 ; 

 id. Engl. Folk-lore, 1880, p. 67 ; Croker, Researches in S. Ireland, 

 1824, p. 233 ; N. and O. (6), xi. p. 297, 1885, &c, &c. 



TPOXI'AOX, 0. 



The Egyptian Plover or Ziezac, Pluvianus aegyptius = Hyas 



aegyptiacus = Charadrius melanocephalus . Also called KXadapo- 



pvyxos. This identification, due in the first instance to Geoffroy 



St. Hilaire, is generally accepted : a recent writer, however, 



states that the true ' Crocodile-bird ' is a somewhat larger species, 



the spur-winged Plover, Hoploplerus spinosus (Ibis, 1893, p. 277). 



Herod, ii. 68 6 Tpox^Xos ecrdvvcov is to o~Topa [tov KpoKobeiXov] KaTanlvei 



Tas (BdeXXas' 6 de vcpeXevpevos rjdeTat, kcu ovdev aiveTcu tov rpo^iXoi/. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 6, 612 t£>v KpoKodelXav x a(TK0 ' VTa>v °< rpoxiXoi KaOaipovcriv 



elcnreTouevoi tovs odovras kcu civtoi uev Tpocpqv Xapfidvovcriv, k. t. X. Cf. 



Arist. Mirab. 7, 831a; Ammian, xxii. 15, 19; Antig. Car. c. 33; Ael. 



iii. 11, viii. 25, xii. 15 ; Plut. De Sol. Anim. ii. 98od; Phile, De An. 



Pr. 97 (82). Mentioned among tovs opviOas tovs irapevdiacrTas kuXov- 



fievovs, Athen. x. 332 e. In Dion. De Avib. ii. 3, the name is apparently 



applied to various sandpipers. Mentioned also Ar. Av. 79 (eV™ de ko.\ 



opveov TpoxiXos, kcu Xeyerai elvai dpipv, Schol., Suid.), Ach. 876, Pax, 



1004, &C. 



