[764] Parda.
[765] Par-k͟hurda-hā.
[766] Pūst.
[767] The eggs are half to two-thirds the size of English eggs.
[768] Even wild hawks make mistakes in stooping and injure themselves, but in this case it is the breast-bone that gets injured.
[769] Kivla, “scab.”
CHAPTER LX
ON THE NUMBER OF FEATHERS IN THE WING AND TAIL
In all hawks, whether long-winged or short, seven flight-feathers, by God’s creation, show from under the coverts called yār-māliq,[770] while in the tail there are in all twelve feathers. Very, very rarely, indeed, are eight flight-feathers apparent under the yār-māliq; but occasionally fourteen or even sixteen feathers occur in the tail. Birds with the latter number are in no way better than birds with the normal twelve.