130 The Birds of the Assyrian Monuments and Records. 
Saceya " = the bovine animal ; (3) stisu = the rhinoceros ; 
(4) Pirdti = the lyrate-horned antelope; (5) Baziati = 
elephants ; (6) Udumi = the different monkeys or apes. 1 
(2) . As to the ox of the River Saceya " ; it may denote the 
yak (Bos grunniens) ; but I rather incline to the opinion that 
the arnee or wild buffalo of India is intended, considering 
the figure of the head which shows the curved horns of a 
Bubalus. 
(3) . I regard the word 6u6u as Accadian, meaning ''double 
skinned" (>^y|), a very suitable name for the Indian rhino- 
ceros, the double folds of whose hide are so conspicuous in 
this great pachyderm. 
(4) . Pirdti. I regard this word as being connected with 
the root fcOQ or »"HD, "to run swiftly," nouns from which root 
being used to designate several active animals, as "young 
bullocks," " wild asses," and " mules." The antelope of the 
obelisk may be intended for the Chikara (Tragops Bennetii). 
the GOAT-ANTELOPE of Europeans in the Deccan. 2 
(5) . Baziati. Hommel and Lotz say that this word is 
most likely an adjective, because it lacks the usual plural 
sign of Y««. But surely the omission of this plural sign is 
not at all unfrequent in Assyrian. Have we not the forms 
}} Sryy^ -£|=yy (a-ga-B), leg £3 >-^=$\ (i-bi-li), "calves" 
and " oxen," (?) occurring with no definite plural signs ? The 
Assyrians did not always deem it necessary to emphasise 
a plural number (in the case of a word already grammatically 
in the plural) by the additional plural sign y««. There is no 
occasion to quote instances where the cases are so numerous. 
Neither do I see the slightest objection to the name Baziati in 
the plural being taken to signify elephants because only one 
is represented on the monument ; two or more of these 
1 Since I have come to this conclusion, I have found that I have been 
anticipated by Lenormant (" Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch.," Vol. VI, Part 2, page 
408), who has given the same names to the same animals. I can congratu- 
late myself on having thus independently arrived at the same conclusion with so 
excellent an authority. Alas ! that we have to lament his recent death ! 
2 Cf. Mr. Pinches on the " Progress of Cuneiform Research," Philol. Soc, 
11th Report, May, 1882 ; and sign-list in his " Texts in the Babylonian Wedge- 
Writing," where he explains the word_pra£i by elephants.— W.H.R. 
