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The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, Volume 2 of 2

Note 112 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

Alexander Rogers translation

1. Crane112 (kulang). 16. Goose (qāz).

2. Sāras (grus Antigone). 17. Konkla (kokilā, the black cuckoo?).

3. Peacock. 18. Partridge (durrāj).

4. Bustard (jarz or charz). 19. Shāvak (starling).

5. Stork (laglag). 20. Nol-i-surk͟h (redbeak, [parrot]?).

6. Bustard (tug͟hdarī). 21. Mūsīcha (wood-pigeon?).

7. Bustard (tug͟hdāg͟h). 22. Hariyal (green pigeon?).

8. Karwānak (kind of crane?). 23. Dhīng (adjutant).

9. Zard-tilak (golden oriole?). 24. Koyal (Eudynamys Orientalis).

10. Nuqra-pāy (silver-foot). 25. S͟hakar-k͟hwāra (sugar-eater, [parrot]?).

11. ʿAzam-pāy. 26. Mahokhā (cuculus castaneus?).

12. Boza laglag (royal curlew). 27. Mahirlāt (?).

13. Pelican (hawāsil). 28. Dhanes͟h (hornbill).

14. Makisa (Ardea indica?). 29. Gulchaṛī (quail?).

15. Bag͟hlā (paddy-bird). 30. Ṭaṭīrī, which the Turks call (blank in MSS.) and I have named bad-āwāz, “evil-voiced.” (It is perhaps the sandpiper.)

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