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The same text interprets the Latin word sicophantes etymologically as comedens ficum, i.e. ‘eating fig’. Thus, the bird, ‘fig-pecker’ here represents a symbol for a sycophant.
s.
orn.zool.fig-pecker, small migratory bird (possibly the garden warbler, Sylvia borin):
pykfyg (s.xv2)