Re: Pierides, turned into birds

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<jodan99@...> wrote:

> What are the translations of names of Pierides, women that was

turned into birds by the Muses ???

>
> Kolymbe - grebe (Podiceps)
> Jygx - wryneck, species of woodpecker
> Kenkhreis - species of hawk
> Kissa - magpie
> Khloris - "fig-eater"
> Akalanthis - goldfinch
> Nessa - duck
> Pipo: - dove
> Drakontis - dragon-pigeon ?
>
> Joao SL

Where are you getting these names from? And what are you asking
for?
Dan