Harpies
Sirens
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Sirens and harpies are confused almost as much as sirens and mermaids, usually by giving harpies beautiful voices.
Source: Harping on About Harpies -
Pathfinder has both harpies and sirens, who are both depicted as bird-women which have beautiful singing voices that can hypnotise listeners, though.
Source: Enthralling Siren -
Also the Stymphalian birds (when not portrayed as corvids or cranes), and the harpies and sirens, gryphons and the peryton all had traits from them.
Source: Myth / Classical Mythology
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