1()6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



XHNAAftriHE (continued). 



1 son,' Horap. i. 53 ; cf. Bailey in Class. Journ. xvi. p. 320, and especially 

 Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 105, who cites from the 



Rosetta stone 7L. ® su-ra=vlbs 'HXiov. Sacred to the Nile, Herod. 



*ii. 72. With cognomen Geoyevfjs, Ar. Av. 1295. Its eggs second only 

 to the peacock's, Athen. ii. 586. vnrjvepia W/cret, Arist. H.A. vi. 2, 559 b. 

 Mentioned also Plin. x. (22) 29. 



XHNE'PGI. A small kind of Goose, Plin. x. (22) 29 et quibus lautiores 

 epulas non novit Britannia, chenerotes, fere ansere minores. 



XHNOIKO'noi. Name of an Eagle, Phile, De An. Pr. (15) 376. Cf. 



nr)TTO<f>6yos. 

 XAftPEY'l. An unknown bird, the statements regarding which are 



all fabulous. 

 Hesych. 6pvi6dpiov xXcopov. Arist. H. A. ix. 1, 609 woXeptoi tS>v 6pvL6a>v 



iroiKikides kcu Kopvdeoves Kal ninpa Kal xXa>pei>?, Tpvyoiv Kal xXoapeiV ano- 

 KTeivei yap ttjv rpvyova 6 ^Xcopeuy. Hostile to Tpvyuv, also in Ael. V. 48 ', 

 ,to Tpvyatv and nopag, Phile, De An. Pr. 690 ; to corvus, Plin. x. (74) 95 

 noctu invicem ova exquirentes. Supposed by Gesner and Sundevall 

 to be identical with y\<tipiwv, and by Gaza with X^ w pk, <!• v - 



XAGPl'X. The Greenfinch, Fringilla chloris, L. Mod. Gk. <pAo>, 



<pia>pi (Erh. p. 44, Von derMiihle, p. 47), in Attica o-myydpios (Heldr.). 



Cf. It. verdone, &c. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis o-Ka>\r)KO<f>dyos. lb. ix. 13, 615 b ra Karat 

 e^et toXP 1 - 1 ' h^-' lK0V *o~t\ Kopvbos' t'iktci a)a. rerrapa 17 nevre' veorriav iroie'iTai 

 ck tov o~vp<pvTov eXKovaa npoppi^ov, o~Tpa>paTa §' vnoftdWei rpixa? Kal epia. 

 The cuckoo lays in its nest, which is placed in a tree, ibid. 29, 618. 



Ael. iv. 47 XXoopis ovopa opviOos, r^irep ovv ova av dWa^odev 7roirjo-aiTO 

 rrjv KaKtav rj ck tov Xeyopevov o~vp(pvTOv' ecrri de p'L£a to avpcpvTov evpedrjvai 

 tc Kal 6pv£ai ^aXf7r<]. arpoapvrjV de v7ro/3aXXercu rpi^as ko.1 epia. Kal 6 pev 

 6rj\vs opvis ovto) KeKXrjrai, 6 be apprjv, )(Xa>pi<t>va KaXovaiv avTov, Kal eo~Ti tov 

 ftiov prjxaviKos, paOelv re irav o ti ovv ayaOos, Kal TXrjpoov vnopelvai rrjv ev t<u 

 fiavOdveiv fidaavov, orav dXa>. Kal diet pev tov ^eipooz/o? acperov Kal eXevOepov 

 ovk av 1801 tis avTov, rjpival de orav vnapgcovTai Tponal tov erovs, TrjviKavT 

 av enKpaivoiTo. 'ApKTovpos re eneTeiXev, 6 de ai/a^oapet e's to. olKela, onodev 

 Kal devpo eaTaXr]. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird ^XooptV. 



On the plant crvpcpvTov see also Diosc. iv. 10, Fraas, Fl. CI., p. 163. 

 Lindermayer, I.e., p. 62, says that the Greenfinch builds abundantly in 

 the olive-groves of Attica, making its nest always of the same material, 



