A.a bird which migrates with quails, perh. corncrake, landrail, Rallus crex, Cratin.246, Arist.HA597b16, Alex.Mynd. ap. Ath. 9.393a, LXX Ex.16.13, Nu.11.31 ; ludicrously applied to Latona, the Ortygian mother (cf. Ὀρτυγία I), Ar.Av.870.
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