When their brother died, the Meleagrides cried incessantly until Artemis changed them into guineafowl and transferred them to the island of Leros.
[1] According to an alternate version cited in the dictionary of Suda, the Meleagrids were companions of Iocallis, a maiden of Leros who was honored as a deity.
[2] Guinea fowl were kept in the shrine of The Maiden (likely Artemis) on Leros,[3] and the inhabitants of the island, as well as other worshippers of Artemis, abstained from eating the bird.
[4] The Meleagrids included Melanippe and Eurymede,[5] possibly also Mothone,[6] Perimede[7] and Polyxo.
[8] Two other daughters of Oeneus, Gorge and Deianeira, were not transformed, since the former was married off to Andraemon, and the latter to Heracles.