The Birds of the Assyrian Monuments and Records. 109 
shaded, and the reading of the word uncertain ; we find here 
£?Tf IIeII < da-lu-u and JgJ K^f|g bal-lu-du. The 
Accadian column has >^<\ *^f] ^l]]^ 1 H^T' KHU & RUM 
U KHU. The word dalu means " long" in Assyrian, and is to 
be compared with the Hebrew to be long," or we may 
read dhalu, and refer the name to the root "to be spotted," 
or " variegated with black and white." It is not improbable 
that the full word in the shaded column was bal-lu-tsi-tuv, a 
name which, as has been already shown, perhaps denotes 
"the magpie." The idea of "the long" bird would have 
quite well suited the long-tailed Pica caudata, while the other 
reading is equally suitable. Khu £l in the Accadian column 
has been shown to signify "a prince," " governor," or "pilot." 
I know not the meaning of the remaining part of the word, 
but I think that a magpie is the long bird intended* 1 
(55.) As to the }}]}]} za*ai-ku, and ^S-ff| 
a-ra-bu [u] of the 44th line, represented by the Accadian 
*~TT^ H^T G * R GI LUM KHU ' no ^hing more 'can 
be said than that the names together point to some " long- 
legged, black, screaming bird," zaikhu being apparently 
onomato-poetic ; but I am unable to identify the bird. 
(56.) In W.A.I., V, 27, 3, obv., 1. 36, there occurs the single 
Accadian nam'e of a bird called lahla-ri >-^| *"T T^T HW) > 
the tablet is fractured at this part, and there does not 
appear to have been an Assyrian equivalent expressed in 
that column. In W.A.I., H, 40, 34, the name lal-la-ar-tuv 
>-£| >--^II0 ^ s equated with 6ar-rad kip-ri, "terror 
of the regions" ("Sen.," p. 20). In W.A.I., II, 25, 71, 
"211 lal-la-ru is identified with Jr£ ]gj ]} 
i-lu-a-li, "high" (?) ; similarly in pi. 32, 1. 18. In II, 5, 29, 
the same word, la-la-ar-tuv |*~ ^f^Tt^T occurs 
alone, the Accadian portion being broken, as the name of an 
insect, and again in the same plate, 1. 16, where it equals 
*-|<y yy.< >-J^> (khu RUB KHA munu), i.e., "tire bee." 
1 The magpie, as it flies athwart the observer, is eminently suggestive of 
length : " Such a length of tail behind " ! 
