[784]. Sir John Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia.
[785]. Anthony Jenkinson in Hackluyt, v. i. p. 368.
[786]. De Mirab. Auscult. 128. Beckm. Hist. of Discov. and Inven. i. p. 321.
[787]. Arist. Hist. Anim. ix. 8. Xenoph. Cyrop. i. 6. 39. has introduced many particulars respecting fowling.
[788]. Cf. Xen. Memorab. ii. 1. 4. Their nets were denominated νεφέλαι, Schol. Aristoph. Av. 194. Cf. Schol. Pac. 1144. The man who watched the nets bore the name of λινόπτης.—Aristot. ap. id. ibid.
[789]. Athen. ix. 42.
[790]. Alexand. Myndius calls it the λαγωδίας in which case it may probably mean the Ptarmigan.
[791]. Athen. ix. 44. seq. Arist. Hist. Anim. viii. 12 ad fin.
[792]. They are taken in so great numbers in the island of Capri that they constitute the chief source of revenue to the bishop of that island.
[793]. Phanodem. l. iii. ap. Ath. ix. 47.