[1604] Hollis, The Masai, p. 323 f.; id., The Nandi, p. 79.
[1605] Ellis, Tshi, p. 203.
[1606] Conolly, Journey to the North of India, 2d ed., 1838, ii, 137 ff.
[1607] Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 78, etc. For South Africa cf. Callaway, The Amasulu, Index, s.vv. Omens, Divination, Diviners; Kidd, The Essential Kafir, Index, s.v. Divining; article "Bantu" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, p. 362.
[1608] 2 Sam. v, 24.
[1609] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Eng. and Ger. edd.), in which references to the original documents are given.
[1610] ὄρνις, οίωνός. Iliad, ii, 859; xii, 237; xxiv, 219; Hesiod, Works and Days, 826; cf. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, i, 127 ff.
[1611] Birds, 715 ff.
[1612] Iliad, xii, 243.
[1613] In Borneo, which has an elaborate scheme of omens from birds, prayer is sometimes addressed to them. Furness, Home life of the Borneo Head-hunters, Index, s.v. Omen; Haddon, Head-hunters, p. 344.