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U'lTTAKH (continued). 



Ael. vi. 19, xvi. 2, 15, its wisdom and vocal powers ; xiii. 18, is 

 reckoned sacred among the Brahmins ; xvi. 2, is of three species. 



Dion. De Avib. i. 19 rols ^irraKois 6Y, ovs ovk iv £vXLvois kXoo(Bo~is dXX % 

 ev cridrjpols Qpovpelv avayKaiov, flex? 1 Ka\ rrjs rffierepas yXaaorrfs wdrjyrja-e ras 

 p-ifiTjcreis rj (fivcris. 



Is friendly to the wolf, Opp. Cyn. ii. 408, 409 tyiTTaKos avre Xvkos re <tvv 

 dXXrjXoiai vepovrai' \ alel yap noOeovcri Xvkoi noecrixpoov opviv. 



The Indian parrots above alluded to are the common parrots of 

 Northern India, Psittacus (Palaeornis) Alexandri, L. (Cf. Val. Ball, 

 Ind. Antiq. xiv. p. 304, 1885.) The parrots seen by Nero's army at 

 Meroe (Plin. vi. (29) 35) must have been another species, P. cubicularis, 

 Hass, and probably all the parrots described by Roman writers (Ovid, 

 Amor. ii. 6, Statius, Silv. ii. 4, Apul. Florid. 12, Persius Prologue, and 

 even Plin. x. (42) 58) came from Alexandria and belonged to that 

 species. They are described as green by Stat., ille plagae viridis 

 regnator Eoae ; Ovid, Tu poteras virides pennis hebetare smaragdos, 

 Tincta gerens rubro Punica rostra croco, &c. C£ Sundevall, op. cit., 

 pp. 126, 127. 



*H$AfON* fiiKpbv dpviOdpiov, Hesych. 



'flKY'riTEPOI. An epithet of a Hawk, used specifically in Ael. xii. 4. 



Cf. II. xiii. 62, &c. 

 'ftPl'GN, s. dpiwv. An unknown and mystical bird. 



Clit. ap. Ael. xvii. 22 : an Indian bird, like a Heron, red-legged, 

 blue-eyed, musical, amative. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 201 &>piW, yXvKvs opvis, 

 6p.ouos ep<ppovi kvkvco. Cf. Strab. xv. Ji8. 



This bird, always associated with the equally mysterious Karpevs, is 

 evidently a poetic and allegorical creation, but what it signifies is 

 unknown. 



'flTi'I. Also outis,. Galen, Hesych. 



The Bustard, Oil's tarda, L. ; including also the Houbara, O. 

 Honiara. Mod. Gk. dypcoyaXXos, Erh. ; 6ri8a, Von der Miihle. 

 Lat. tarda, whence Bustard, i.e. avis Tarda, Plin. x. (22) 29 

 Proximae eis (tetraonibus) sunt quae Hispania aves tardas appellat, 

 Graecia otidas. 



Description. — Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 rbv aTOfiaxov %x eL evpvv Ka\ nXarvv 

 oXov' a.7ro(pvd8as ex ei ' lb. V. 2, 539 D crvyKadeio'Tjs rrjs OrjXeias eVt rrju yv\v 

 iirifSaivei to cippev. lb. vi. 6, 563 iirad^ei TrepX rpiaKovff rj fie pas (like Other 

 large birds, e.g. goose and eagle). Arist. Fr. 275, 1527 b, ap. Athen. ix. 

 390 c eori piev t5>v eKToni^ovroiv Kai cr^iSaj/07roSo)V Kal rpidaKTvXojv, fieyedos 

 dXcKTpvovos fieydXov, XP®! 10 - oprvyos, KeCpaXrj 7rpop.r)KT]s, pvyxos o£v, Tpax^Xos 

 Xenros, 6<pdaXfio\ fieydXoi, yXaxraa do-Tcobrjs, npoXofiov 6° ovk e\ei. (This 



