TURKISH. 193 



Note. — The latest contribution to the literature of Falconry 

 in Russia will be found in three articles by the present writer, 

 contributed to The Field m 1890, namely, " Trained Eagles," 

 with an illustration of one, August 2 ; "The Eagles used by 

 Russian Falconers," August 1 6 ; and " The Berkut of Tur- 

 kestan," December 27. 



-^-^"j. Baz Nameh li Mahmud ibn Muhammed ul 

 Barchini, 



The Book of the Hawk of Mahmud B. Md. ul 

 Barchini. Fourteenth century. 



This work, which appears to be an adaptation of the treatise 

 described by Dr. Rieu (Cat. Persian MSS. in Brit. Mus., vol. ii. 

 pp. 484, 485), is printed in Turkish, with a German translation, 

 by Hammer Purgstall (No. 112), from a MS. at Milan. It was 

 composed, he says, in the fourteenth century, and the Turkish 

 author states that it was at first written in a civilised language, 

 and was translated into Arabic, thence into Persian, and from 

 Persian into Turkish. 



It consists of 155 bdbs^ or sections, some of them very short 

 ones, and after some confused traditions relative to the origin of 

 Falconry, descriptions of the birds used, and notes on the 

 method of feeding and training them, the greater portion of the 

 treatise is devoted to an enumeration of the diseases to which 

 hawks are supposed to be liable, and the remedies proposed for 

 them. 



Schlegel, who cites this work on the authority of Hammer 

 Purgstall, is of opinion that the latter has failed in his attempt 

 to identify the species of hawks referred to by their Turkish or 

 Arabic names, and in this he is right. For example, the Shahin, 

 can hardly be the Lanner ; by this name Indian falconers 

 designate the Peregrine. The Kartschal, if used (as the Turkish 

 author states) to take Roe-deer, is not likely to be any species 



If 



