ARABIC, 20 r 



to the courtesy of an enthusiastic falconer in India, Lieutenant 

 D. C. Phillott, intelligence officer to the British forces at Dera 

 Ismail Khan, Punjab. 



Nasir is one of the names of the present Shah, and the work 

 is styled his out of compliment. The author is Mirza Taimiir, 

 Governor of Fars, son of Husain AH Mirza, and grandson of 

 Fateh Ali Shah Kajar, Fateh Ali Shah was the great-grand- 

 father of the present Shah. The place of publication is not 

 mentioned, the book is lithographed, and is what is known in 

 India as a " bazar edition." 



For further details concerning the practice of Falconry in 

 Persia than is afforded by the treatises above named the reader 

 may be referred to Jaubert, who visited the summer quarters of 

 the Persian Court near the ruins of Sultanieh on the great plain 

 of Iran, and saw falcons, from the southern shores of the Caspian 

 and Aral, flown at bustards, hares, gazelle, and wild-duck 

 ("Voyage en Armenie et en Perse, p. 353); Morier, who 

 witnessed hawking in the plain of Bushire (" Journey through 

 Persia and Armenia," 4to, London, 1812), and Sir John Mal- 

 colm, who gives an account of gazelle-hawking, and bustard- 

 hawking on the sandy plains of Persia about 20 English miles 

 from Abubekir, and hare-hawking in the environs of Shiraz 

 (" History of Persia," 2 vols. 4to, London, 181 5 ; and " Sketches 

 of Persia, 2 vols. Svo, London, 1828). See also Dr. John 

 Harris, " Voyages and Travels," folio, London, 1764, vol. ii. 

 p. 887 ; Ranking, " Historical Researches on the Wars and 

 Sports of the Mongols," 4to, London, 1826, pp. 92-99 ; De 

 Filippi, "Note di un Viaggio in Persia nel 1862," 8vo, Milan, 

 1865; and Colonel Yule's edition of " Marco Polo's Travels, " 

 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1875. 



The latest information on the subject of Falconry in Persia is 

 that afforded by Major Oliver St. John in the " Account of the 

 Persian Boundary Commission," 1870-72, edited by Sir Frederic 

 Goldsmid, C.B., K.C.S.I., 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1876, vol. ii. 

 pp^ 102-111. 



Note. — No treatises on Falconry in Hindustani have come 

 to light, although copies of several Persian MSS. on the subject 



