. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. legs as weaponsof defence, and is a more dangerous quarry than even the common crane. ~ Q*^^^ T., means Ied. Mazenderan, a hilly province on the south coast of the Caspian. Maddmi PI. Ar. The author explains this to mean having blackunder the eyes and u^nder the chin. Vide also note 2, page 50. Passage-Hawk, a wild hawk caught upon the passage or migra-tion. —iZar^Mi^. Aha; the Persian gazelle {Gazella subgutterosa). Uidike its con-gener, the Indian gazelle (the well-known c/iiAvIra or ravine-deer ofthe Panjab), the female of this spec
. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. legs as weaponsof defence, and is a more dangerous quarry than even the common crane. ~ Q*^^^ T., means Ied. Mazenderan, a hilly province on the south coast of the Caspian. Maddmi PI. Ar. The author explains this to mean having blackunder the eyes and u^nder the chin. Vide also note 2, page 50. Passage-Hawk, a wild hawk caught upon the passage or migra-tion. —iZar^Mi^. Aha; the Persian gazelle {Gazella subgutterosa). Uidike its con-gener, the Indian gazelle (the well-known c/iiAvIra or ravine-deer ofthe Panjab), the female of this species is hornless. A full-grown Indiangazelle weighs about thirty-six pounds, and stands a little over two feethigh at the shoulder. It [the gosliawk] takes not only partridges andpheasants but also greater fowls as geese and cranes.—Albins , of Birds. ^ Put in, to drive the quarry into covert.—Harting. •^ A Persian falconer informed me that the Qizil is smaller, slower,and inferior in courage to the other races, and that it can readily be. -5 K ?r. < o SS HU •< 10 BAZ-NAMA-YI NASIRI Etess of Qizil.—The eyess^ of tlie Qizil is more courageousthan tlie passage hawk/^ for it has the courage of with fostering care from its nestling days^ what recks itof the frowns of Fortune ? Untaught by Time, what knows itof the spoiling Eagles might ? Though the eyess may at firstexcel the passage-hawk in courage, it is inferior to it in powersof flight. With increased knowledge, comes decreased a word, the nestling bears the same relation to the passage-hawk that the town-bred man does to the desert tentman. Passage and Eyess Qizil compared with Tarliin.—Comparedwith the eyess, the passage Qizil is the better, especially thatvariety which has the reddish-black cheek-stripe.^ Althoughinferior in powers of flight to the Tarldn, it is better at takinglarge quarry, and in this quality, as well in affection for itsmaster, it improves moult by
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