The pheasant and the heath-cock (the latter a black species spotted with white) are found in the woods near Failyun.

The sand-grouse and the pin-tailed grouse belong to the eastern portion of the country, the portion known anciently as Carmania or "the hot region." The other kinds are diffused pretty generally.
The shores and rivers of Persia Proper supplied the people very plentifully with fish.

The ancient writers tell us that the inhabitants of the coast tract lived almost wholly on a fish diet.

The Indian Sea appears in those days to have abounded with whales, which were not unfrequently cast upon the shores, affording a mine of wealth to the natives.

The great ribs were used as beams in the formation of huts, while the jaws served as doors and the smaller bones as planking.
Dolphins also abounded in the Persian waters; together with many other fish of less bulk, which were more easy to capture.