[836] Cf. Bouché Leclercq, op. cit. I. p. 140, note 2.
[837] Hesiod, Works and Days, 745.
[838] The identification of the birds named by even the more intelligent peasants is necessarily uncertain. The name κουκουβάγια is seemingly onomatopoeic, suggesting the hooting of the owl, but is generally reserved to the brown owl.
[839] op. cit. § 2.
[840] In the dialects of Scyros and other Aegean islands, κ before the sounds of ε and ι is regularly softened to τσ. The ρ has, as often, suffered metathesis.
[841] Hom. Od. XV. 524 ff.
[842] Derivation from χαρά, instead of Χάρος, and πουλί is possible, but less likely. It would then be an euphemistic name, ‘bird of joy.’ An owl named στριγλοποῦλι (on which see above, p. [180]) appears to be a semi-mythical bird chiefly found in Hades; it is possibly identical with ‘Charon’s bird.’
[843] Cf. Ἐμαν. Μανωλακάκης, Καρπαθιακά, p. 126.
[844] Il. VII. 184.
[845] Od. XVII. 365.