Syrinx

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The lower larynx in birds.

(2): ( n.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; - called also pandean pipes.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in Greek mythology, was a daughter of the river-god Lado, who, when pursued on account of her beauty by Pan, prayed to her father for relief, and was changed into a reed. Pan cut some stalks from it, joined them together with wax, and used it, in the form known to us as Pan's pipe, in remembrance of her (Ovid, Metam. 1, 690).

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

An Arcadian nymph, who, being pursued by Pan, fled into a river, was metamorphosed into a reed, of which Pan made his flute.