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List of the commonest descriptive terms occurring in Turki bird names. 



Ala =variegated. 



Aq = white. Diminutive, aqis = whitish. 



Bas =«= head. 



Biiz={a) grey ; (&) a bird after first moult. 



Capar = mottled. 



Caqir = (wall-eyed), blue-eyed. 



Darya = belonging to the water or sea. 



Kicik = small, " lesser." 



Kok ==b\ne, dark-blue, black. Diminutive 



kokis. 

 Mdda = male. 

 Pilpeklik = crested. 

 Qara = black. 



Qizil = red. Diminutives, qizghij, qizghinj, 



qizghis. 

 Qum ■= sand. Quyruq = tail. 

 Sarigh = yellow. Diminutives, sarghinj, sari- 



ghic, sarighis, sarghineclik. 

 Su = water. 

 Tagh = mountain. 

 Uzun = broad, wide, long. 

 Yawa (yaba, yaban)= wild. 

 Yasil = green. 

 Diikiir = a. spur. 

 Tirmaq = a talon or claw. 



Method of Transcription. 



C — ch s 

 s = sh u2 

 q = k (3 



The letter " f " ( o ) in the Turki nearly always represents " p," while " b " ( \-> ) very 

 often stands for " w." 



X.B. — The Turki is given in each case exactly as it is found in the original manuscript, 

 which is often very curious, especially in regard to the division of syllables. 



List of commonest Abbreviations. 



H. & H.=Hume and Henderson's Lahore to 



Yarkand. 

 Z. = Zakharoff's Manchu-Russian Dictionary. 

 P. de C. = Pavet de Courteille's Dictionnaire 



Turc-Orientale. 

 Sang. = Sanglakh. The famous Turki-Per- 



sian Dictionary by Mirza Mehdl Khan, the 



Historian Nadir Shah. 

 G. = Giles's Chinese-English Dictionary. 

 B.S. = BowdlerSharpe. The Scientific Results 



of the Second Yarkand Mission. Section 



Aves. 



B.M. I. = Or. 1912. 

 B.M. II. = Or. 404. 



Rieu's Catalogue of 

 Persian Manuscripts 

 in the British Mu- 

 seum. 



The Mirror = The Manchu Mirror. See Intro- 

 duction. 

 Scully S. F. = Stray Feathers. 

 Houtsma's List. Ein Turkisch-Arabisches 

 Glossar, Leiden, 1894. 



