M. ON THE TERM BAHRI QUTAS. xlvii
contemporary Haidar Mlrza, however, mentions the wild yak twice and simply as the wild qutds.
The following are random gleanings about "bahri" and the yak :
(i) An instance of the use of the Persian equivalent daryd'i of bakri, sea-borne or over-sea, is found in the Akbar-ndma (Bib. Ind. ed. ii, 216) where the African elephant is described as ftli-daryd'i.
(2) In Egypt the word bakri has acquired the sense of northern, presumably referring to what lies or is borne across its northern sea, the Mediterranean.
(3) Vigne {Travels in Kashmir ii, 277-8) warns against confounding the quch-qdr i.e. the gigantic moufflon, Pallas' Ovis ammon, with the Kosk-gau, the cow of the Kaucasus, i.e. the yak. He says, " Kaucasus (hodie Hindu-kush) was originally from Kosh, and Kosh is applied occasionally as a prefix, e.g. Kosh-gau, the yak or ox of the mountain or Kaucasus." He wrote from Skardo in Little Tibet and on the upper Indus. He gives the name of the female yak as yak-mo and of the half-breeds with common cows as bzch, which class he says is common and of " all colours ".
(4) Mr. Ney Elias' notes {Tdrikh-i-rashidi trs. pp.302 and 466) on the qutds are of great interest. He gives the following synonymous names for the wild yak, Bos Poephagus, Kkdsh-gau, the Tibetan yak or Dong.
(5) Hume and Henderson (Ldhor to Ydrkand p. 59) write of the numerous black yak-hair tents seen round the Pangong Lake, of fine saddle yaks, and of the tame ones as being some white or brown but mostly black.
(6) Olufsen's Through the Unknown Pamirs (p. 118) speaks of the large numbers of Bos grunniens (yak) domesticated by the Kirghiz in the Pamirs.
(7) Cf. Gazetteer of India s.n. yak.
(8) Shaikh Zain applies the word bahrito the porpoise, when paraphrasing the Bdbur-ndma f. 281^.
