106 The Birds of the Assyrian Monuments and Records. 
characters ^ [^|] (?) sa-la [tu] "spoil," perhaps referring 
to the same habits of these birds of prey. " Wheresoever the 
carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together." 
(44.) PL 37, No. 1, rev., L 12, ]} *^ ^ 
a-vur-sa-nu ; this word is simply repeated in the other Assyrian 
column, and only a fragment (^y^) is left in the 
Accadian. I think it must be referred to the ur-ia-nu or 
tdmsilu already considered, " some kind of pigeon." I am 
inclined to think, with Norris ("Assyr. Diet.," p. 28), that 
avursanu is an Assyrian form of an Accadian word, and that 
ursanu is to be similarly explained ; that a-vur-Sa-nu is the 
parent bird (|y "father") of the uHanu, which the Assyrian 
tumsilu, the Talmudic explains as " a pigeon." 
(45.) of the gg^y ^y< ^yjy^ u-u-du or ^ryyy ^<y< 
£^y >^JEj ta-ti-du-tuv, in pi. 37, No. 1, rev., 1. 16, nothing 
at all certain can be known, and the question of identity must 
remain undecided. 
(46.) PI. 37, 1. 67, I£J *JH Jgf, ^ & Jgf 
and J£iy ^jyy cu-ru-uc-cu, ca-rac-cu, and cu-ru-bu. The 
three words are, perhaps, all onomato-poetic, and refer to 
some cawing bird. 
(47.) L. 19. Of the ^\]]^ ka-ku-u, and 
►►^ *^y >~yy^ jEyj tar-ma-zi-lu, I have nothing to say, but 
that the former word is imitative ; that the latter appears to 
be of Accadian origin ; and that some " cawing bird " is 
denoted. 
(48.) In pi. 37, No. 2, obv., we have a bilingual list of 
birds' names, which is nearly perfect, a great many of the 
Accadian names being preserved. In 1. 28 we have 
v tyyyt >-yy<y j^iyy - and 1 1 ; the first 
character in the first name should, perhaps, be altered to 
^Sz^l^, and the name read as tir-ri-ta-ruv, a reduplicated 
form. The second word is incomplete : perhaps the lost 
portion was ^y istsur, and the whole bird-name, 
itstsur khal-zi, " bird of the fortress.' From such uncertain 
data attempts at identification must be mere guess-work. 
