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[N.S.] 

 Urchin, (hedgehog), vide Hedgehog. 

 Urines, *J 3 * du-gaza, Hindu, and Panj., (a small hawk-catching 



net suspended between two light upright bamboos some- 

 thing after the manner of a tennis-net ; a live bait is pegged 

 down in the centre, on the far side of a wild sitting 

 hawk) ; ^^4 J>y \£ ^ du-gaza-yi, qirqi-giri, Mod. Pers. (a 

 'do-gaza' for catching sparrow-hawks): vide Net. 



V 



Varvels, (small flat rings, with owner's name engraved, at- 



ill 



tached to jesses) : %«*. chhalla, Hindu, (ordinary rings are 

 used). 



Vent, ^j bun, Ind Pers. MS. ; ijbe sufrah,Ar.; *Ju sufra Hindu. 



'^suc maq'ad, Ar., and Mod. Pers.: 





mazraq 



o 



Mr r * 



Verds, [A greenish colour ; applied to the feet, etc., of hawks 

 vide Harting's Hints on Hawks, p. 128, 2nd Ed.j. 



Vertigo , 



Q 



I, p. 85). 



View, 1 to fly to the ; [A Goshawke or a tercell that shall flee to 

 the vew. to the toll or to the beke. in this maner she 

 is taught ye must fynde a fowle in the Reuer or in a 

 pitte preueli. and then fete youre hawke a grete space 

 of. uppon a mooll hill or on the grounde. and crepe 

 softeli towarde the fowle : from youre hawke streght way 

 and when ye come almost ther as the fowle lyeth. looke 

 backewarde towarde the hawke. and with youre hande or 

 with youre tabur styke : becke youre hawke to come to 

 you. and when she is on wyng. and comyth low bi the 

 grounde. and is almost at you. then symte your tabur. and 

 cry huff. huff, huff and make the fowle to spring, and with 

 that noyse the fowle will rise and the hawke will nym it. — 

 BoJce of St. Albans, p. 48J. 



Culture, lyo J^ kaLmurgh and J^ ***** safed hil, in thePanjab, 



and \j 



Wh 



Egyptian Vulture) : ^f,^ iXsS kachal-charkas 



**** gidh, Hindu, and J ± dnl or jjL ;»o/° J 



u» 



lash-khur Mod. Pers. (gen.) ; j~±) 



nasr, Ar. MS. ; aU>j rakhmah, Ar. MS. (the Egyptian 



vulture). 



1 " That is to say she flieth to the vew or to the bake, Of to the tall. 



ii 



