At any rate, until Zagros has been thoroughly explored by Europeans, it must remain uncertain what animal is meant.

Meanwhile we may be tolerably sure that, besides the species enumerated, Mount Zagros contains within its folds some large and rare ruminant.
Among the birds the most remarkable are the eagle, the bustard, the pelican, the stork, the pheasant, several kinds of partridges, the quail, the woodpecker, the bee-eater, the hoopoe, and the nightingale.
Besides these, doves and pigeons, both wild and tame, are common; as are swallows, goldfinches, sparrows, larks, blackbirds, thrushes, linnets, magpies, crows, hawks, falcons, teal, snipe, wild ducks, and many other kinds of waterfowl.

The most common partridge is a red-legged species (_Caccabis chukar_ of naturalists), which is unable to fly far, and is hunted until it drops.

Another kind, common both in Azerbijan and in the Elburz, is the black-breasted partridge (_Perdix nigra_)--a bird not known in many countries.

Besides these, there is a small gray partridge in the Zagros range, which the Kurds call seslca.