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raven ; &quot; a sub-tribe of the Fazara.&quot; Qonfudh, hedge 

 hog ; &quot; a sub-tribe of Suleym.&quot; Kalb, dog ; &quot; a sub- 

 tribe of Qoda a and of the Beni Leyth and of Bagila.&quot; 

 Kuleyb, whelp ; &quot; a sub-tribe of Tamim and of Choza a 

 and of Nacha .&quot; Kildb, dogs (pi.). Two eponyms of 

 this name are given. The Beni Kilab, who are Qaysites, 

 are quite distinct from the Kalb, who are Yemenites. 

 Leyth, lion. Two eponyms of this name. The Beni 

 Leyth have been mentioned under Kalb. Yarbti, 

 jerboa ; &quot;a sub-tribe of the Beni Tamim and of the 

 Hawazin and of the Dhubyan.&quot; Namir, panther ; &quot;a 

 sub-tribe of Rabi a bin Nizar, and of the Azd and of 

 Qo&amp;lt;Ja a.&quot; Anmdr, panthers ; &quot; sub-tribes of the Arabs.&quot; 

 Anmar son of Nizar is the eponym of a Ma addite tribe 

 that settled in Yemen. Anmar is also a son of Saba , the 

 eponym of the Sabaeans (Tabari, i. p. 225, 1. 9). To the 

 same source belong, no doubt, Numara, &quot; a subdivision of 

 the Lachm and others,&quot; and Nomeyr (little panther) 

 among the Qaysites. 



In these and numerous other cases the animal name is 

 undisguised. In some cases we find a termination an, 

 which is noteworthy, because the same thing occurs in 

 Hebrew gentilicia. Thus : 



Zabydn (from ( ^ gazelle), &quot; a subdivision of the Azd&quot; ; 



Waldn (from Jc 5 ibex), &quot; a subdivision of Murad &quot; ; 

 Labwdn (from s^J lioness), &quot;a subdivision of Ma afir.&quot; 

 Finally I add what seems to be the case of a mongrel. 



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The Arabs have many fables of the Sim (^A**) , a beast 



begotten by the hyaena on the wolf, and so we find 



Sim , &quot;a subdivision of the Defenders (the Medinites).&quot; 

 Here we seem also to have the form in an, for Sam an is a 

 subdivision of the Tamim. ^^ and ^Jl**^ are a similar 



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pair to ^i?ptp arid ^rhsotp. The identity of psoip and -**, 

 was suggested long ago by Hitzig. 



The origin of all these names is referred in the genea- 



