The Bwds of the Assyrian Monuments and Records. 103 
Persian highlands. It is about the size of a turtle-dove, and 
in its winter plumage the adult bird has a patch of white with 
ash-brown markings on the chin. Other grebes, such as the 
crested species, P. cristatus, P. nigricollis, P. auritus, occur on 
the Caspian, on the Baluchistan coast, and on the Kazrun 
Lake, and the smaller species, as P. auritus and P. nigricollis, 
were probably included under the names of the dhabiu and 
cacis ndari, i.e., "the small diving bird of the rivers or water." 
The English name of dabchick or didapper = dive -f diver or 
dapper, i.e., " the double diver or dipper," from the perpetual 
diving habits of the bird, expresses the same idea as the 
Assyrian name of dhabbiu. Dr. Delitzsch suggests a " sea- 
gull " (erne Movenart) ; but no sea-gull is known to dive, 
whilst the little grebe or dabchick fulfils all the require- 
ments. 
(42.) obv., No. i, 1. 15, >^yy T]y t^y jiyyy^ m-ur-d JU -u, 
H£fcJ ^yy ^zff ca-Mu. There can be no doubt that 
these two bird-names are to be referred to that of the 
^yy^fz 5fZ *~y<y &ur-du, which occurs in the Accadian 
column of W.A.I.; V, pi. 27, 1. 48. Unfortunately, in this 
tablet the whole of the Assyrian portion is broken, and not a 
vestige of the Assyrian equivalents remain, whilst in the 
tablet in which the two Assyrian names of surdu and ca§usu, 
are preserved, only a fragment of the corresponding Accadian 
name is left. This remaining bit is >~y<y, which is 
evidently the remains of the complete Accadian word in 
voi. v, he. dt. The £-yy^ -y<y, >-^yy jjy ^<y 
and *~£^£f *^yy > i^TT' are therefore the names of the 
same bird. The Accadian name £^yy^: ^y<y, which 
may be read either &ur-du, "might-making," or cus-du, "rest- 
making," has been inadvertently read by the late Mr. G. Smith 
and by M. Lenormant as ra-pa-kak khu, " the rapakak bird," 
the parts of the name having been wrongly separated, as 
Dr. Delitzsch ("Assyrische Lesestiicke," p. 31, 171) has already 
pointed out. The name of surdu, which occurs in the Assyrian 
column in pi. 37, No. 1, 1. 15, is therefore evidently a loan 
word, and borrowed from the Accadian, and shows us, more- 
