BLACK-BREASTED PARTRIDGE. 
water, is held in great estimation by the Eelauts ; and they carry their 
flocks to the highest parts of the mountains, where these blessings may 
be found in abundance. This perhaps will give fresh force to the 
promises made by the prophet Isaiah, to the Gentiles —Their 
pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thh'st, 
neither shall the sun or heat smite them; for he that hath mercy on them; 
shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. Ka-- 
zioun is in the bolook of Kongouri, in which there are altogether 
thirteen villages. A mountain called the Koh Kasreh Yacoub, or the 
mountain of Jacob’s castle, is to be seen from it, on which we were in¬ 
formed were many ruins; but these, from the description given of 
them, are probably only Mahomedan. Another mountain called the 
Koh Khorgoun, so called from the village of Khorgoun being situated 
near it, is very conspicuous above the rest, having a summit composed 
of a number of small conical hills. Khorgoun bore from Kazioun, 
N. 48° E.: about two miles to the northward of it is another of Bah- 
ram’s castles. 
The next day we reached Deloo Nezer, a village situated still in 
the cold region, a fact which we could attest, by feeling here a neces¬ 
sity of putting on our great-coats in the freshness of the morning. At 
noon we were incommoded by a very strong wind that blew from the 
northward and eastward. We saw several curious birds, and .particu¬ 
larly one which is found in great abundance throughout all the north¬ 
ern provinces, called in Turkish, the Bohara Kara-, and in Persian, 
Siah Sineh, both meaning black breast. It has a warty skin round the 
eye, the feet bare, the inside of the toes rough, and a small spur on the 
foot of both the male and female. It has a strong convex bill, with 
the nostril under the feather. The feet are black, and the fore-part of 
the leg, which is very strong, > is covered with very short ferruginous 
feathers. The male is brown, spotted with black ; the female of a 
dirty yellow and brown intermixed. Round the fore-part of the trunk 
on the breast, is a horse shoe of black feathers, more strongly marked 
in the female than the male. All the lower part of the trunk is black. 
* Isaiah, xlix. 9—11. 
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