flTII— nTOI 201 



flTOZ continued). 



vovres' <a\ mxecos aXiaKovrai. A less absurd version, ibid. 391 a ; cf. 

 Plut. Mor. ii. 961 E. Hence &>ro?, one easily taken in, a ' gull/ 



Plin. x. (23) 33 Otus bubone minor est, noctuis maior, auribus plumeis 

 eminentibus, unde et nomen illi ; quidam Latine asionem vocant : 

 imitatrix avis ac parasita, et quodam genere saltatrix, &c. 



Casaubon and others, followed by Lidd. and Sc, state that Athenaeus 

 confounds faros with wtLs. There is indeed a confusion in the text, due 

 to the interpolation in 360 d /jufxrjrtKov 84 eWt, k.t.X., between two state- 

 ments referring to (oris ; but the respective statements as to utos and 

 (oris are correct. 



The Short-eared Owl is indicated in the following statements : 

 (1) as a migratory bird; (2) as associated with the quails, i.e. a bird 

 of the open country; (3) as being diurnal and not nocturnal. The 

 commentators have often fallen into error from ignorance of the habits 

 of the Short-eared Owl : e. g. Gesner, in gallinis, de otide, ' nocturnam 

 avem aut noctuae similem nullam migrare arbitror.' (Certain other 

 species are, at least, partially migratory ; cf. (int. al.) Giglioli, Avif. 

 Ital., 1886, pp. 227, 228, &c.) 



In Arist. H. A. viii. 12, and in Plin. I.e. there appears to be some 

 confusion with the Long-eared or Common Horned Owl, Strix o/us, L. 



