. A dictionary of the Bible .. . why it may not have done so in primitive (Trav. p. 211) obseived the fallow-deeron Mount Tabor. Sir G. Wilkinson says { p. 227, 8vo. ed.), The stag with branchinghoms figured at Beni Hassan is also unknown inthe valley of the Nile; but it is still seen in thevicinity of the Natron lakes, as about Tunis, thoughnot in the desert between the river and the RedSea. This is doubtless the Cervus Barharus. Most of the deer tribe are careful to conceal theircah-es after birth for a time. May there not besome allusion to this circumstance in
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . why it may not have done so in primitive (Trav. p. 211) obseived the fallow-deeron Mount Tabor. Sir G. Wilkinson says { p. 227, 8vo. ed.), The stag with branchinghoms figured at Beni Hassan is also unknown inthe valley of the Nile; but it is still seen in thevicinity of the Natron lakes, as about Tunis, thoughnot in the desert between the river and the RedSea. This is doubtless the Cervus Barharus. Most of the deer tribe are careful to conceal theircah-es after birth for a time. May there not besome allusion to this circumstance in Job xxxix. 1, Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? &, as the LXX. uniformly renders ai/ydl bye\a(f>os, we may incline to the belief that theCervus Barharus is the deer denoted. The femininenoun n7*K, ayydldh, occurs frequently in the 0. the Scriptural allusions see under Hind. HAWK {f^i, nets : Upa^: aecipiter), thetianslation of tlie above-named Heb. term, which. Fdico Saccr. occurs in Lev. xi. 16 and Deut. xiv. 15 as one ofthe unclean birds, and in .Tob xxxix. 2(5, where it isasked, Doth the nets fly by thy wisdom andstretch her wings towards the south ? Tlie wordis doubtless generic, as appears from the expressionin Deut. and Lev. after his kind, and includesvarious species of the Falconidae, with more especialallusion perhaps to the small diurnal birds, such asthe kestrel {Falco tinnunciilus), the hobby (Hy-potriorchis subbuteo), the gregarious lesser kestrel(^Tiniiunculas cenchris), common about the ruinsin the plain districts of Palestine, all of which wereprobably known to the ancient Hebrews. Withrespect to tlie passage in Job {I. c), which appearsto allude to the migratory habits of hawks, it iscurious to observe that of the ten or twelve lesserraptors of Palestine, neaily all are summer mi-grants. The kestrel remains all the jear, but , Micronisus gahar, Hyp. eleonorae, andF. melanopterus, are all migrants from the
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