[369] In India geese and common cranes are, by means of a stalking bullock, sometimes stalked while feeding, and thus taken by a goshawk.
[370] Chāk͟hrūq, “stone-plover.”
[371] Bālābān, “passage saker.”
[372] Vide page 12, note [59].
[373] Buldurchīn T. “The Common Quail.” Anqūd, “The Ruddy Sheldrake.”
[374] Qarqāvul (Phaseanus colchicus).
[375] Durrāj, the Francolin or Black Partridge of India.
[376] Bi-yak sar du sar agar girift fa-bi-hā: sar, “attack, stoop, etc.”
[377] Māt shudan, is “to be astonished, perplexed; to become rigid from astonishment:” the author applies this idiom more than once to the goshawk, apparently in the last sense.
[378] Lieut.-Colonel E. Delmé Radcliffe states that a goshawk he owned and sent to a friend afterwards killed grouse on the Scottish moors. He also says that an exceptional goshawk tiercel he once had took “storks, white-necked storks (M. episcopus), bar-headed geese (A. indicus), sheldrakes (C. rutila), kestrels, rollers (C. indica), white-eyed buzzards (Poliornis teesa), on one occasion a merlin (L. chiquera), pigeons and other exceptional quarry without number, and yet was in the constant habit of catching partridges and small quarry;” (page 19).