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Us that its food oneee entirely! of bits of bone, and that it is 
ever seen sailing in the air: questing, with its attention turned 
towards the earth; sal that whenever it spies a bone, it seizes it 
in its beak, and rising aloft casts it on a rock and shatters it, ona 
then descends and eats the shattered fragments. It the 
appears to wy most probable that this is the Huma so well Laewn 
by name.’ 
The ‘dbl however, does not confine itself. to bone. 
have seen one carry off a dead chicken in its beak. Once, too, 
stated that the Lammergeyer had killed it, and this too was my 
own impression, An Englishman, a sportsman and a keen observer, 
told me that he had once seen a Lammergeyer chase a ‘chukor’ 
down a ravine, but did not oe Sa end of the chase, (As the 
‘chukor’ was a solitary bird, as perhaps a sickly one.) On 
another occasion, in the little ‘an. Siatinn of Shaikh Budin, near 
Dera Ismail Khan, I saw ‘a’ Lammergey repeatedly at a 
and effectually kept the assailant at bay. Blanford writes : 
“The stories, chiefly Alpine, of its carrying off lambs (whence 
its oe a “ Lammergeyer’’ or Lamb vulture) and even children, 
and pushing goats and other animals over precipices, are now 
gen a Ceacednel, It is somewhat doubt whether this 
great bird ever attacks living prey, Whether the 
Lammergeyer was really attempting é teish ihe kid off the 
cliff-side, or whether it was merely animated by that spirit of 
mischief that enters into birds as well as beasts, I cannot say. 
The old Persian fable, that the man on whose head the shadow 
of a Hum@§ falls, will eventually become a king,* is well known ; 
not so the modern Persian superstition, that he who shoots one of 
these auspicious birds, oT it to be a humda, will meet his 
death within forty day 
D. C. Puituort, Lieut. Colonel. 
OOO 
Madér “ centre,’ roperly “its chief food,” but the word is 
ti secnerdely used to aur, as in the text, “entirely.” 
2 “ Tiizuk-i Jahangiri” ; Jashn-i Bistumin-i Nauroz, page PdA edition 
by ‘ Syud Ahmad, Ally Gurh,’ 1864 A.D. 
8 From Humd comes the adjective and proper name Humdyiin, “ For- 
tunate.” 
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‘* What though the a cai the world take flight, 
*Neath the owl’s shadow none will ere alight. 
a. Chap. I., St. 3, Eastwick’s Trans, 
