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



moon " in hunting or driving) : i*j+i qumurgha, T., and 

 %\gj^. chargah or *Zj^ jargah T., Ind. Pers. MS. (a hunting 



circle formed by beaters ; this is apparently a complete 

 circle). 



Clap, vide Mandible. 



Clattering, [A clateryng (flock) of choughes. — Boke of St. Albans, 

 p. 86]. 



Claw, e&*£ nakhun, gen. ; ^y^ »'•£ shah-nakhun , Ind. Pers. MS. 



and Panj. (the hind claw, which is the key to opening the 

 closed foot) : v^^G* qullab, Mod. Pers. (the hind claws) : vide 

 1 Closer/ ' A vi lions/ Sengles, and Talons. 



Closer or Key, w*i»x> mifchlab, pi. v-JIxlx makhalib, Ar. and Mod. 



Pers. [Onderstond also that the longe Sendees be calde the 

 key of the fote/ or the closer. For what thyng som ever 

 it be yt yowre hawke stenyth : open that Sengle, and all 

 the fote is oppen, for the strength therof fortyfieth all the 



fote. — Boke of St A., p. 13]. Vide Sengles : ^I&f ^ *# 

 bich ki ungli, Hindu., Panj. 



Clutch, Clutching, [Taking the quarry in the feet in the air as 



short- winged hawks do (and occasionally falcons), instead 

 of striking it down]. 



Clyster-stick, *»14 or JU shaf or shaf a, Mod. Pers. and Hindu. 



(a stick with cotton- wool at one end ; dipped in oil and 



as 



/ the first 



See 



Genl. Rec. — Halliwell. "A Goshawke nor a tercell in thare 

 soreaage haue nott thau mayles named, bot it is calde 

 their plumage, and after the cote it is called theyr Maill." 

 Boke of St. Albans, p. 12. From the latter it would appear 

 that i cote 9 meant the first moult, and that the breast- 

 feathers of Goshawks were called ' plumage ' in the 

 immature, and ' mail ' in the mature, bird. From the 

 last section on p. 1 1 of the same author it would appear 

 that the breast-feathers of falcons wete called ' maill/ 

 both in the immature and mature birds]. 



Cogh, (cough), vide Poose. 



Cold, vide Rye. 



Colon, (the largest intestine) vide Stomach. 



Colver or Colvere, [A dove or a pigeon ? vide Dove]. 



Hindi hank •• a drive." Dr. Denison Ross suggests iSJ^ J"° LSJ f * the 



t 1 * i it,, i • m 



orn 



not the u longe sengle " or middle claw. 



and 



