320 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1910. 



Bowse, Bouse, Booze, etc., (to drink), [Is when a Hawke 

 drinketh often, and seems to be continually thirsty. 1 

 Latham. i Vide ' also Gen. Rec. ii, 61]. 



Bowsin or Bowsing, (drinking). 



Bracelet, «J^3L bilajak, Ind. Pers. MS. (from *Jj&* bildzik or 



balazik T.). 



Brahminy duck, vide Shi eld rake. 



Brail, [A narrow slip of thin soft leather, with a long slit in it, 

 used for tying one wing of a restless hawk that bates 

 much. — Harting. Eastern falconers use neither the brail 

 nor the cadge. As a rule each hawk has its own falconer, 

 but a spare hawk is sometimes carried on the head. A bird- 

 catcher transporting a number of hawks carries them on 

 the shoulder, on a long pole bound round with grass, etc. ; 

 newly-caught sparrow-hawks are done up in c socks,' like 

 grocer's parcels, and so transported]. 



Brain- fever Bird, vide Cuckoo-hawk. 



Brancher, (a hawk that has left the nest and can fly from tree 



to tree, which according to the Boke of St. Albans takes 

 place after St. Margaret's Day); z vide Bowiser. 



Brayles or brail- feathers, (the long small white feathers under 



the tail) ; <*%> nay fa (Ind. Pers. MS.) and £&# nayfaq (Ar. 

 MS. ; said to be a corruption of the Pers. **U nafa) ; tj>) f *> 

 dum-Uza, Mod. Pers. (the brayle-f eathers , or the Pope's 

 nose ?). 



Breast, Jjo baghl (Panj. and Ind. MS.) and *#sS kachh, Panj., 



(in a hawk, the flesh on the side of the breast, under the 

 wing, where the wing-joint is ; vide also Joint) : *>*- sina, 

 Panj. and Ind. Pers. MS. (the whole breast; vide also 

 Joint) : vide Condition. 



Brood, [A brode of hennys]. 



Bury, [A " Bery of Conyis " : vide Coney]. 



Building, [A beldyng of Rookes]. 



Bush-chat, vide Chat. 



Bustard, ;»**> tughdar, Panj. , and Ind. Pers. MS. (the great Indian 



M* ur^ wish mur^h , I* . 9 and eta ygja duy-dagh 



1 Ignorant — or over-physicking with sal-ammoniac produces an in- 

 satiable thirst that lasts for many days. 



* According to the *' Boke of St. Albans," hawks should be taken 

 when branchers. St. Margaret's Day appears to be the 10th June, 

 in honour of a canonized queen of Scotland. However the 20th July 

 is sacred to another saint, Sainta Margarita, virgin and martyr. 



