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SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IX, 11-19.
15. The birds are distributed into eight groups (ristako), and from that which is largest to that which is smallest they are so spread about as when a man, who is sowing grain, first scatters abroad that of heavy weight, then that which is middling, and afterwards that which is small.
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16. And of the whole of the species, as enumerated a second time in the Dâmdâd Nask, and written by me in the manuscript (nipik) of 'the summary enumeration of races "'-this is a lordly summary-the matter which is shown is, about the species of horses, the first is the Arab, and the chief of them is white and yellow-eared, and secondly the Persian, the mule, the ass, the wild ass, the water-horse, and others. 17. Of the camel there are specially two, that for the plain, and the mountain one which is double-humped. 18. Among the species of ox are the white, mud-coloured, red, yellow, black, and dappled, the elk, the buffalo, the camel-leopard®, the ox-fish, and others. 19. Among sheep are those having tails and those which are tailless, also the wether and the Kûrisk which, because of its trampling the hills, its great horn, and also being suitable
1 Bund. XIV, 25.
See § 1; the particulars which follow are also found in Bund. XIV, 14-18, 21-24, showing that the Bundahis must be derived from the Dâmdâd.
The title of this work, in Pahlavi, is Tôkhm-aûsmarisnîh-i hangardiko, but it is not known to be extant.
• Reading marâk (Chaldee ), but this is doubtful, though the Iranian final k is often added to Semitic Huzvâris forms ending with â. It may be minâk, 'thinking, thoughtful,' or a corruption of manik, 'mine,' in which last case we should translate,' this is a summary of mine.'
Bund. XXIV, 6.
• Literally, 'camel-ox-leopard.'
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