There have been cooing doves, chattering magpies, thieving jackdaws, a proud peacock, a silly goose, and a harpy eagle -- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals ''.

More's friend Andrew Ammonius derided Alice as a " hook-nosed harpy ", although Erasmus attested that the marriage was a happy one.

In Greek mythology, a harpy (, harpyia ; ) was one of the winged spirits best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineus.

A harpy was the mother of the horses of Achilles sired by the West Wind Zephyros.

A harpy in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642 A medieval depiction of a harpy as a bird-woman.

Balius (; Βάλιος, Balios, possibly " dappled ") and Xanthus (; Ξάνθος, Xanthos, " blonde ") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyros ( Latin Zephyrus ); following another tradition, their father was Zeus.

Harold made Helen Daniels look like a manipulative harpy, and yet the universe still conspired to sweep him out to sea, give him amnesia for several years, and to give his wife Madge terminal cancer.

The coat of arms, granted in 1978, displays the so-called virgin eagle ( or harpy ), which was the heraldic animal of the Cirksena family, a local clan providing East Frisian chieftains during the Middle Ages.

Regarding the fauna, agouti, white-nosed coatis, gray foxes, Geoffroy's spider monkeys, howler monkeys, harpy eagles, falcons, ocellated turkeys, guans, toucans, green parrots and leafcutter ants can be seen there regularly.

They believe that the season as they roll are but ministers of England's rapacity ; that their starving children cannot sit down to their scanty meal but they see the harpy claw of England in their dish.

Goblins and harpies are shown to have the potential to possess half-talents, the complementary half existing in a member of the other species, ( i. e., a goblin must team with a harpy for them to utilize their talent ); the hostility between goblins and harpies proved a major obstacle to any serious effort by them to work together to develop these potential talents.

The Harpy Eagle was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Vultur harpyja, after the mythological beast harpy.

The harpy eagle uses as tools of its trade the largest talons of any living eagle, each exceeding the length of grizzly bear's claw at around.

The harpy often builds its nest in the crown of the kapok tree, one of the tallest trees in South America.

Bioparque The Amazon is a private investment, authorized and licensed by IBAMA to function as C class zoo, the only category of Pará There are four different species of alligators in a population of thousands of individuals, highlighting açu for alligator, monkeys, anteaters, and the otters, hyacinth macaw, papagaios, tucannos, pacaranas, harpy eagle, among other animals.

File: Ulm Münster-Chorgestühl Miserikordie Harpye. jpg | Ulm minster, Germany: a harpy

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A harpy was a Greek mythological winged spirit.

The Bird Monster is often identified with the harpy eagle, although it also has mammalian and reptilian features.

Known predators include jaguars, margays, harpy eagles, and anacondas.

The latest series of Natural World began transmission in July 2010 with a study of harpy eagles in the Orinoco rainforest.

In the Middle Ages, the harpy, often called the " virgin eagle ", became a popular charge in heraldry, particularly in East Frisia, seen on, among others, the coats-of-arms of Rietburg, Liechtenstein, and the Cirksena

Occasionally the classic harpies are referenced by name, such as the appearance of Celaeno in Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

Triton lived with his parents, Poseidon and Amphitrite, who was also known as Celaeno, in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea.

The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.

Celaeno cursed them, saying the Trojans will be so hungry they will eat their tables before they reach the end of their journey.

It's claimed she is the mother of Achilles's immortal steeds Balius ( Balios ) and Xanthus ( Xanthos ) by Zephyrus, but some sources claim it was really her sister Celaeno.

In Greek mythology, Celaeno (; sometimes Calaeno, Celeno or Kelaino from Κελαινώ, lit.

* Celaeno, one of the Harpies, whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades.

* Celaeno, one of the Pleiades.

* Celaeno, one of the Danaids, the daughters of Danaus.

* Celaeno, an Amazon.

* Celaeno, daughter of Hyamus and granddaughter of Lycorus.

* Celaeno, a star in the Pleiades open cluster of stars.

* The star Celaeno features as a location in the Cthulhu Mythos stories of August Derleth.

* Celaeno is the name of the chief Goddess in the Celaeno Series by Jane Fletcher.

* Celaeno is also the name of Skylord Lysander's flying ship in the Shadow Of Israphel series by the Yogscast.

They were three in number: Aello, Ocypete, and Celaeno, or Podarge ; and were said to be daughters of the giant Thaumas and the Oceanid nymph Electra.

Nycteus and his brother Lycus were the sons of either Chthonius, one of the Spartoi, or of the nymph Clonia and Hyrieus, the son of Poseidon and the Atlantid Alkyone, or of Poseidon and the Pleiade Celaeno.

Yet another Eurypylus was a son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno, and ruled over the Fortunate Islands.

Her sisters are the Harpies ; Aello, Celaeno and Ocypete.

# Celaeno was mother of Lycus and Eurypylus by Poseidon.