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Lanner. — Balaban, S. Russia ; in Siberia, Sherebetz ; with the 



Calmucks, Itelgoe. Common throughout the desert of Tartary. 

 Saker. — Krasnii Krechet, i.e., Red Jerfalcon ; Itelgoe, Itelgui, 



with the Bashkirs and Kirghis (Haller). 

 Hobby. — Shchoglok, or Choglak ; in some provinces, Kopets. 

 Red-legged Hobby. — Kopets and Koptschik. 

 Merlin. — Derbnik and Derbnichok (dimin.). 

 Kestrel. — Pustolga. 

 Eagle. — Orel (generic), Berkut (specific) ; with the Tartars 



generally, Bjurkut. See an article on this bird in The 



Field of December 27, 1890. With the Kirghis a trained 



eagle is worth two camels (Pallas, vol. i. p. 339). 

 The Spotted Eagle, Aquila clanga, Pallas, ncevia, Brisson, is 



called by the Tartars Karagush, i.e., black eagle. 



The writer has been recently informed by Prince Boris Swiato- 

 polk Cyetwertynski that in his opinion the species to which the 

 name berkut is properly applied is not, as has been supposed by 

 some authors, the golden eagle {Aguila chrysaetus, Linnaeus, 

 nobilis, Pallas), which the Russians call orel, but one of the 

 smaller eagles, either A. naevia or A. bonellii. He adds, how- 

 ever, that the young golden eagle in its first or dark plumage, 

 which is called by the. Tartars Kara-tschagyl, or " black eagle," 

 is often called berkut. He describes the true berkut as being 

 " larger than a falcon, but smaller than an eagle." 



Strahlenberg has some interesting remarks on the Siberian 

 eagles used by the Tartars. " There are three sorts of eagles," 

 he says, " in Siberia. The first and largest sort the Tartars call 

 Barkut. They are coal-black, and so is the very beak of them. 

 The skin about the nostrils and the legs only are of a lemon 



colour The second sort is called in the Tartarian tongue, 



Kutschugan ; and the third and least sort, Kara-kush, in Latin 

 Aquila naevia [the Spotted Eagle]. The Tartars make use of 

 this sort of eagles as they do of falcons for hawking " (p. 360). 



See also Col. T. E. Gordon, " The Roof of the World : being a 

 narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the 

 Russian frontier, and the Oxus sources on Pamir," 8vo, Edin- 

 burgh, 1876 (pp. 78, 88). 

 Goshawk. — Yastreb ; the young, Raibik. With the Calmucks 



and Mongols, Itelgoe. 

 Sparrow-hawk. — Perepelyatnik, i.e., the Quail-hawk. 



