The older Roc, of which more in the Tale of Sindbad. Meanwhile the reader curious about the Persian Símurgh (thirty bird) will consult the Dabistan, i., 55, 191 and iii., 237, and Richardson's Diss. p. xlviii. For the Anka (Enka or Unka=long-necked bird) see Dab. iii., 249 and for the Humá (bird of Paradise) Richardson lxix. We still lack details concerning the Ben or Bennu (nycticorax) of Egypt which with the Article pi gave rise to the Greek "phœnix." Footnote 285: Probably the _Haledj_ of Forskal (p. xcvi. Flor. Ægypt. Arab.), "lignum tenax, durum, obscuri generis." The Bres. Edit, has "ákúl"=teak wood, vulg. "Sáj." Footnote 286: The knocker ring is an invention well known to the Romans. Footnote 287: Arab. "Sadr"; the place of honour; hence the "Sudder Adawlut" (Supreme Court) in the Anglo-Indian jargon. Footnote 288: Arab. "Ahlan wa sahlan wa marhabá," the words still popularly addressed to a guest. Footnote 289: This may mean "liquid black eyes"; but also, as I have noticed, that the lashes were long and thick enough to make the eyelids appear as if Kohl-powder had been applied to the inner rims. Footnote 290: A slight parting between the two front incisors, the upper only, is considered a beauty by Arabs; why it is hard to say except for the racial love of variety. "Sughr" (Thugr) in the text means, primarily, the opening of the mouth, the gape: hence the front teeth. Footnote 291: _i.e._ makes me taste the bitterness of death, "bursting the gall-bladder" (Marárah) being our "breaking the heart." Footnote 292: Almost needless to say that forbidden doors and rooms form a _lieu commun_ in Fairie: they are found in the Hindu Katha Sarit Sagara and became familiar to our childhood by "Bluebeard." Footnote 293: Lit. "apply Kohl to my eyes," even as Jezebel "painted her face," in Heb. put her eyes in painting (2 Kings ix., 30). Footnote 294: Arab. "Al-Barkúk," whence our older "Apricock." Classically it is "Burkúk" and Pers. for Arab. "Mishmish," and it also denotes a small plum or damson. In Syria the "side next the sun" shows a glowing red flush. Footnote 295: Arab. "Hazáṙ" (in Persian, a thousand)=a kind of mocking bird. Footnote 296: Some Edit. make the doors number a hundred, but the Princesses were forty and these coincidences, which seem to have significance and have none save for Arab symmetromania, are common in Arab stories. Footnote 297: Arab. "Májúr": hence possibly our "mazer," which is popularly derived from Masarn, a maple. Footnote 298: A compound scent of ambergris, musk and aloes. Footnote 299: The ends of the bridle-reins forming the whip Footnote 300: The flying horse is Pegasus which is a Greek travesty of an Egyptian myth developed in India. Footnote 301: The Bres. Edit. wrongly says "the seventh." Footnote 302: