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the second part of the work of Isa B. 'Ali B. Hasan al-Asedi ; 

 and Nazmi Zadeh, unable to procure the first part, supplied some 

 additional matter from other sources. An imperfect copy of the 

 original work is described in the Catalogue of Arabic MSS. in 

 Brit. Mus., p. 634 b. See also Leclerc, Histoire de la Medecine 

 Arabe^ i. p. 503. 



The work is divided into a great number of small sections, 

 termed bdbs, but not numbered. The first contains traditions 

 respecting those who first made use of birds of prey for the 

 chase, fol. 2 b. The second describes the various kinds of 

 hunting birds, fol. 4 a. The rest of the contents may be briefly 

 described as follows : — Training and Feeding of Hawks, fol. 7 b ; 

 Diseases of Hawks and their Treatment, fol. 14 a; On the 

 Nature and Good Qualities of Hounds, fol. 66 b ; Diseases of 

 Hounds and their Treatment, fol. 71a j Diseases of the Cheetah, 

 or Hunting Leopard, fol. 81 b. 



Note. — For an interesting account of Hawking as practised 

 in the province of Cilicia, Turkey in Asia, where the Goshawk 

 i^yxcY\^\s.^doghan) is chiefly employed, the reader may be referred 

 to a volume by William Burckhardt Barker (son of John Barker, 

 who died at Suwaidyah, near Antioch, in 1850, and godson of 

 the eminent traveller and oriental scholar Louis Burckhardt), 

 entitled "Lares and Penates: or, Cilicia and its Governors; 

 being a short historical account of that Province from the 

 earliest times to the present day." 8vo. London, 1853. The ob- 

 servations on Falconry will be found pp. 284-298. Besides the 

 Goshawk, the Turkomans train the Peregrine (Turkish, Shehee?i\ 

 the Lanner (Turkish, Seifee), and the Sparrowhawk (Turkish, 

 Atonaj'ia), while the Jerfalcon, or, it may be, the Saker (Turkish, 

 Songhar), is said to be sometimes taken in the north of Asia 

 Minor (p. 297). But the Goshawk is the favourite bird, as it is 

 found to be the most useful, and best suited to the nature of the 

 country. 



" The Goshawk," says this writer (p. 290), " when properly 

 broken in, requires little or no attention ; his master need keep 

 no servants or falconer to attend upon him, and carry him day 

 and night on the hand, which is requisite with the Peregrine ; if 

 in proper trim, he is ready to hunt, and you can count upon him 



