[571]Bā-ham janāḥ andāk͟htan.

[572] Siyāh-chashm, “black-eyed.”

[573] Ḥarām, “prohibited; that which is unlawful.”

[574] Kurdistān, in Turkey in Asia, N.E. of Mesopotamia.

[575] The black ibis, a favourite quarry in India for the peregrine, is not found in Persia, Baghdad, etc. Gulls are found in the vicinity of Shiraz, notably in the open ground round the “Tak͟ht-i Jamshīd” or Persepolis.

[576] Baḥrī.

[577] Shāhīn-i t̤ūrī, lit. a netted shahin: t̤ūrī for tūrī.

[578] Shāhīn-i āshiyānī.

[579] By “shāhīn” here the author presumably refers to the eyess.

CHAPTER XXXVII
TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO COMMON HERON[580]