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Pitch, (the height at which a hawk waits on). 





Pitch, i£**) zift, Pers. 



Phthisis, fjJJ v^ tab-i lazim, (also hectic-fever). 



Pleiades, vide Plumage. 



Plover, *-&fjj/ karwanak, Hindu, (the Stone-plover, (Edicnemus 

 crepitans) : <S>\jjf <*?f abi karwanak or simply abi, and i^Sy* 

 shukan in Derajat (the Large Stone-plover Esacus recurvi* 

 rostris) : bjUjA asu bachcha hubdra, Mod. Pers. (the Stone- 



ruq, T. (ditto) ; d\}f karawan, pi. &\)jS 



and e^l!/ Hnranand kardwin, Ar. MS. (ditto) ; Ij a^Si nuqra- 

 pa, Ind. Pers. MS. (probably the Indian Courier Plover, 

 called in the Derajat nukal-pan) ; cte* ff kam c aql, and 

 >>>> C5^ p 'Ali dan dau, in Peshawar (ditto); c£U ^;j zard- 

 palak, Ind. Pers. MS. (prob. the Yellow-wattled Lapwing) : 



cJjJLt 



wattled 



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Lapwing) : ^ J^ kul-ka*o in Kashmir (the Red- wattled 

 Lapwing): ^jj rotan, in Chach Hazard (the Peewit and 

 also plovers generally) : vide Congregation and Lapwing. 



Plumage, the feathers under the wing (vide Boke of St. A., 

 p. 15). [The mail of goshawks in their soreage was called 

 plumage and not mail q.v.] Vide Feathers. 



Plumage, (feathers given as a casting). Vide Casting. 

 Plume, to, or Deplume li^i jj par nochna 9 Hindu, and Panj. ; 



&**fj£ par kandan, Pers. 

 Plume, to fly at, [To fly at birds. — Salvin and Brodrick.] 



Plume s. , vide Hood. [Plume is the general colour or mixture 

 of feathers in a Hawke, which sheweth her constitution. 



Latham 



sS>\ rang 



Pochard, 



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t)j*> sJ\ db-khora 

 nangir pochard 



or dun-bird (in Chach Hazara): vide Duck. 

 Podagre, (gout in the feet), ^J^ niqris, Ar. and Pers. (gou 

 [When yowre hawkes fete be swollynshe hath the podag 



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the exact spot when 

 Block' and fc Put in.' 



throwing herself up in the air over 



a mmrrv has ' nut in '). Vide ' to 



Poose, or Cogh, (cough), ^-^W^ khans] 



