Alcyone (Pleiad)
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Alcyone, in Greek mythology, was the name of one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione or, more rarely, Aethra.
The Pleiades
Halcyon (genus)
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Halcyon is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the subfamily Halcyoninae.
Alcyone (Pleiad)
…the letter H) led to the common misspellings halkyón (ἁλκυών) and Halkyóne (Ἁλκυόνη), and thus the name of one of the kingfisher bird genus' in English Halcyon. Athenaeus of Naucratis. The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the…
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