1^6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



<t>AAAKPOKO'PA=. A bird, commonly identified, on the strength 

 of its name (cf. <f>a\apis), with the Coot; according to others, 

 the Cormorant. See also s. v. Kopaf, |3. 



Plin. x. (48) 68 lam et in Gallia Hispaniaque capitur [attagen], et 

 per Alpes etiam, ubi et phalacrocoraces, aves Balearium insularum 

 peculiares. Cf. ib. xi. 47 quaedam animalium naturaliter calvent, 

 sicut . . . corvi aquatici, quibus apud Graecos nomen est inde. 



♦AAAPI'I, S. 4>aXir]pis. (MSS. have also (papaXis.) 



(<pdXos, the ' beak ' of a helmet ; cpdXapos, a white spot or ' blaze ' ; 

 cf. Germ. Blesshuhn, from Bletz = blaze, Buttm. Lexil. s. v. cpdXos : 

 the Engl, bald-coot is analogous.) 

 The Coot (?), Fulica atra, L. Mod. Gk. (paXapiba (Heldr.). 



Ar. Ach. 875, Av. 565 %9 'A(ppobLTr) 6vrj, irvpovs opvtOi (paXrjpibi Bveiv 

 (ubi Schol. f) be (paXrjpis opveov i<m Xipvalov exm penes). Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3, 593 b opvis (TTeyauonovs, fiapvrepos' irep\ norapovs Ka\ Xipvas eaTiv. 

 (Mentioned with kvkvos, vrJTTa, KoXvp^is.) Id. fr. 273, 1527 b aXXdrreadat 

 cos t5>v Koacrvcpoov Kai (paXijpibav aTvoXevKaivopevoav Kara Kaipovs. 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 395 e f] be <f>aXap\s Ka\ avrfj trrevov exovaa 

 to pvyxps arpoyyvXcorepa rrjv o\jnv oucra, eprecppos rrjv yaarepa, piKpco 

 peXavrepa to v<otov. Cleom. ap. Athen. ix. 393 C (paXi]p'ibas raptxipas 

 pvpias. Its mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. Plin. x. (48) 57 

 Phalerides in Seleucia Parthorum et in Asia, aquaticarum lauda- 

 tissimae; Colum. viii. 15, 1 ; Varro, R. R. iii. II, 4. 



The identification rests mainly on the modern name, of which 

 Sundevall and Aubert and Wimmer seem to have been unaware, and 

 is supported by the derivation of the word. Sundevall suggests Mergus 

 albellus, and Aubert and Wimmer also suppose a species of Mergus. 

 Gesner, Camus, and other older commentators agree in the identifica- 

 tion of Coot. At best the identification is doubtful, and the various 

 references perhaps refer to more birds than one. The allusion in 

 Athenaeus to ten thousand salted (paXrjpibas is especially puzzling. The 

 connexion with Aphrodite in Ar. Av. 565, where we might rather 

 have expected some such word as nepio-Tepq, is not explained. 



♦AIIANO'I, s. (jxxaicwiicos ; SC. op^is. 



A Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, L. Vide also s. v. Tempos. 



Mnesim. ap. Athen. ix. 387 b o"rravia)Tepov ndpeo-riv opviOav ydXa \ 

 Ka\ (pacriavos drvoTeTiXpevos KaXa>s. 



Ar. Av. 69 ; Nub. 109 (sometimes supposed to refer, in the latter 

 passage, to a Phasian horse, cf. Suidas, Lob. Phryn. 460, but not so 

 according to Athen. ix. 387 a). 



Agatharch. ap. Athen. ix. 387 C irepl tov $daibos norapov top Xoyov 

 noiovpevos ypdcpet Kai TavTa' " nXrjdos ft opvlOcov t&v KaXovpevcov (pao~iava>v 



