s stone called _Liguire_ (i.e. _Ligurium_), which the ancients
fancied to come from _Lync-urium_; the tale is in Theophrastus). Yet the
quaint Bestiary of Philip de Thaun, published by Mr. Wright, identifies it
with the Greek Hyena:--

"_Hyena_ e Griu num, que nus beste apellum,
Ceo est _Lucervere_, oler fait et mult est fere."

[The Abbe Armand David writes (_Missions Cathol._ XXI. 1889, p. 227) that
there is in China, from the mountains of Manchuria to the mountains of
Tibet, a lynx called by the Chinese _T'u-pao_ (earth-coloured panther);
a lynx somewhat similar to the _loup-cervier_ is found on the western
border of China, and has been named _Lyncus Desgodinsi_.--H. C.]

Hunting Lynxes were used at the Court of Akbar. They are also mentioned by
A. Hamilton as so used in Sind at the end of the 17th century. This author
calls the animal a _Shoe-goose! i.e. Siya-gosh_ (Black-ear), the Persian
name of the Lynx. It is still occasionally used in the chase by natives of
rank in India. (_Brunetto Lat. Tresor_, p. 248; _Popular Treatises on
Science written during Mid. Ages_, 94; _Ayeen Akbery_, u.s.; _Hamilt. E.
Indies_, I. 125; _Vigne_, I. 42.)

NOTE 3.--The conception of a Tiger seems almost to have dropped out of the
European mind during the Middle Ages. Thus in a mediaeval Bestiary, a
chapter on the Tiger begins: "_Une Beste est qui est apelee Tigre c'est
une maniere de_ Serpent." Hence Polo can only call the Tigers, whose
portrait he draws here not incorrectly, _Lions_. So also nearly 200 years
later Barbaro gives a like portrait, and calls the animal _Leonza_.
Marsden supposes judiciously that the confusion may have been promoted by
the ambiguity of the Persian _Sher_.

[Illustration: The Burgut Eagle. (After Atkinson)
"Il a encore aiglies qe sunt afaites a prendre leus et voupes et dain et
chavrion, et en prennent assez."]

The Chinese pilgrim, Sung-Yun (A.D. 518), saw two young lions at the Court
of Gandhara. He remarks that the pictures of these animals common in
China, were not at all good likenesses. (_Beal_, p. 200.)

We do not hear in modern times of Tigers trained to the chase, but Chardin
says of Persia: "In hunting the larger animals they make use of beasts of
prey trained for the purpose, _lions_, leopards, _tigers_, panthers,
ounces."

NOTE 4.--This is perfectly correct. In Eastern Turkestan, and among the
Kirghiz to this day, eagles termed _Burgut_ (now well known to be the
Golden Eagle) are t