l8o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



♦AM> {continued). 



ix. 29, 618. The Cuckoo lays her eggs in its nest (cf. s. v. <f>d<xaa, 

 Arist. De Mirab. 3, 830 b). 

 Mentioned also Lye. 580. 



«t>EAAl'NAI. An unknown water-bird, mentioned, with epithet raxv<:, 

 as being captured in nets, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. 



♦H'NH. According to Doederlein, connected with cprjvos (= Xapnpos), 

 (paw, (fraivco, &c, i.e. having ra ofxixara Xapnpd : or according to 

 Von Edlinger and others, from root bha-n = cpovetv. I incline 

 to think the word is an exotic, and probably Egyptian, connected 

 with <polvi^ Eg. befinu. 



A kind of Vulture. 



Od. iii. 371 *A9r)vr) I cprjvj] eldofievr). Od. xvi. 2l6 Kkmov de Xiye'oK, 

 ddivoorepov rj t' olavoi, \ (prjvai r/ alyvrriol yapyj/awxes. Ar. Av. 304. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b derov p.eig<ov, to XP&p-a o-nodoeides. lb. ix. 32, 

 619 derbs 6 yvfjaios peifav rrjs (f)r)Pr)s. lb. vi. 6, 563, ix. 34, 619 b eK^Xq&Vni 

 TpeCpei to. rod derov reKPa (cf. Ambros. Hexaem. V. 18). e'napyepos T eVrl 

 Kcii 7rerri7pcornt tovs 6(pda\povs (? a reference to the blood-red sclerotic of 

 the eye). Its maternal affection referred to (cf. atyu^ios, &c), Opp. 

 Hal. 1. 727 Kai p.iv tis (prjVrjs ddivov yoov eK.Xvev dvqp \ opQpiov dptyl Tenecaiv. 



Arist. De Mirab. 60, 835 a e£ dXiaieTcov <f>r)vr] ylverai, £k de rovroiv 

 rrepKvol Kai yvnes. 



Ael. xii. 4 (prjvrjv de ko\ ap7TT)v ^Afirjvq rrpoavepovaiv. 



According to Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. vi, Zeus metamorphoses the 

 wife of Periphas into the bird $^7, /ecu didol npos anaaav rrpa^iv dvOpunois 

 alcriav enxpaiveaOai : cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 399. 



Also 4>tytS, Diosc. ii. 58 cpivis to opveov, 'PrnpaUrrX KaXovaiv dao~i(ppnyov: 

 cf. Plin. x. 3. 



Identified by Aldrovandi, Gaza, and by most moderns, with the 

 Aquila barbata of Pliny, N. H. x. 3, that is to say with our Lammer- 

 geier, Gypa'etus barbatus, L., which is accurately described by Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 4 under the name fipirrj. The Lammergeier is also 

 identical with Lat. ossifraga (Plin. 1. c), a name accurately descriptive of 

 its habits, and Lat. sanqualis (Festus, 316,317). The brief description 

 in Arist. H. A. viii, inclines Sundevall, Aubert, and Wimmer, to identify 

 (prjvr) with Vultur 7nonachus. The references are in the main poetical 

 or mythical, and both the name and the stories of the bird's maternal 

 affection seem to me to point to an Egyptian origin. With the stories 

 of the Eagle's bastard brood, cf. the Mod. Gk. name prjXadeXcpi = 

 €Tcpo6a\r)s (Coray, "Ara/cra, v. 204), said by Heldreich to be applied 

 to Aquila Bonellii. 



