^{page 110 note 1} Mair s translation (Loeb ed.), ‘with firm bits of wood’, suits most birds' nests but not shearwaters'; in them there are no ‘twiggy bits’ (Glossary), nor ‘wattlework’ (Fowler, Warde, C.R. xxxii. 67)Google Scholar nor ‘crates’ (Pliny, , N.H. 10. 61). The birds dig tunnels. Why attempt to whitewash Pliny?Google Scholar

^{page 110 note 2} Mair has quite missed the point that these birds set out and return in the dark.

^{page 110 note 3} 79 (836a).

^{page 110 note 4} Shearwaters. See opp. p. 9.Google Scholar

^{page 110 note 5} Cf. the Lockleys' account of shearwater sitting on the sea waiting for sunset, or the Koch broadcast of shearwater, setting off at 1 a.m.

^{page 110 note 6} Alex. 1. 599.Google Scholar

^{page 110 note 7} Alex. 594. See Thompson's article in his second edition of the Glossary. Aldro-vandi's drawing was taken from a dead shearwater sent to him from the Tremiti, and incorrectly represents the bird as standing: shearwater neither stand nor walk. The name Great Shearwater is kept now for an oceanic bird which flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic.Google Scholar

^{page 110 note 8} Strabo 283 ad fin.

^{page 110 note 9} Alex. 230. Surely a translator should aim at giving some meaning even to an obscure author.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 1} Paus. 1. 5. 3; 41. 6; cf. Alex. 359. Of course this epithet can have nothing to do with ships: see Liddell and Scott.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 2} Cf. Od. 5. 337, 353.Google Scholar Cf. Anth. 7. 285.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 3} Beasts and Birds of the Greek Anthology, p. 105:Google Scholar commentary on Anth. 7. 212.Google Scholar Agamemnon had a mare called in a winning team: Iliad 23. 295.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 4} Iliad 19. 350. ‘Shrill-voiced, with long beating wings.’ The description fits the shearwater exactly. Liddell and Scott say ‘unknown bird of prey, prob. shearwater’, which is no bird of prey.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 5} e.g. Anth. 6. 23,Google Scholar 7. 285, 295, 374, 652, 654. Note on 6. 23 rock well-trodden by the shearwater. Though the birds cannot walk, they do wear grooves in climbing up rocks for the take-off. I cannot, however, be confident that this was known to the poet (Shearwaters, p. 49). They sometimes nest in caves, especially in Greece.Google Scholar

^{page 111 note 6} The latest Liddell and Scott follows the Glossary.

^{page 111 note 7} as an emendation of 21. 252 is not convincing.

^{page 112 note 1} Facts of this sort would not of course deter a punster, but this is tragedy.

^{page 112 note 2} There is no proof that Archilochus fr. 93 Diehl (110) is talking about an eagle.

^{page 112 note 3} Il. 21. 252–3.

^{page 112 note 4} H.A. 618^b1(9.32).

^{page 112 note 5} An Osprey will not do because the king went on chasing a bird: the Osprey hunts fish only.

^{page 112 note 6} Weigand, Th., Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen Abb. 45–47. One of them (Abb. 47) is carrying a bone, presumably from a sacrifice.Google Scholar

^{page 112 note 7} Aristotle said that White-tail then frequented cities, H.A. 618^b (9.32).

^{page 112 note 8} Aristotle tells us that each pair likes a wide territory to itself, H.A. 619^a29 (9.32).

^{page 112 note 9} Portrait of a Wilderness, p. 158. Mountford describes an Imperial Eaglet.Google Scholar

^{page 112 note 10} H.A. 620^a1 (9.34).

^{page 112 note 11} Makatsch, , Vogelwelt Macedoniens, mentions Lake Langada north of Salonika in this connexion.Google Scholar