Part 2, P. 288), but Its Index Contains Many References

seemingly to the same man as Khwāja Abū'l-husain Turbati. The P. N. says the book which it entitles Wāqi`āt-i-ṣaḥib-qirān (The Acts of Tīmūr), was in Turki, was brought forth from the Library of the (Turk) Governor of Yemen and translated by Mīr Abū-ṯālib Ḥusainī; that what Timūr had done with this book of counsel (dastān-i-nasā'iḥ) when he sent it to his son Pīr-i-muhammad, then succeeding (his brother) Jahāngīr [in Kābul, the Ghaznis, Qandahār, etc.] Shāhjahān also did by sending it, out of love, to his son Aurangzīb who had been ordered to the Deccan.

In n. 5 for "parwān" read parrān, and read Blanford.

Which read (l. 17) for yak rang. The name bak-dīng appears due to the clapping of the bird's mandibles and its pompous strut; (cf. Ross' Polyglot List, No. 336).

Following the zammaj insert "Another is the buzzard (T. Sār); its back and tail are red". (Cf. Omission List under p. 500.)

See Omission List under p. 498.

After "Tramontane", add Its breast is less deeply black.

The bird being black, its name cannot be translated "yellow-bird"; as noted on p. 373 sārīgh = thief; [sārāgh or sārīgh means a bird's song].

For references to Niẕāmi's text, I am indebted to Mr. Beveridge's knowledge of the poems.

Cf. Mr. G. Murray's trs. (Euripides i, 86) suggesting that the Wooden Horse was a sar-kob.

Abū'l-ghāzī classes Manghīt with Mughul tribes, Radloff with Turk tribes (Récueils p. 325), Erskine says, "modern Nogais."

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