JIMACH, also called 1Vokliab. Dr. Francis Buchanan Hamilton, in Shahabad district, saw a jimach attack a very strong falcon as it was hovering over a bush into which it had driven a partridge. The moment the falcon spied the jimach, it gave a scream and flew off with the utmost velocity, while the jimach equally pursued. They were instantly followed by the whole party, foot, horse, and elephants, perhaps 200 persons, shouting and firing with all their might ; and the falcon was saved, but not without severe wounds, the jimach having struck her to the ground ; but a horseman came up in time to prevent her from being devoured.' The wokhab, or ukab, as it is also termed, is a small eagle, very abundant in the plains of Upper India, the Dekhan, etc., bearing many systematic names, the earliest of which is Aquila fulvescens ; it is not quite so large or robust as the Aq. ntevioides of Africa, with which it has been supposed identical. The wokhab is very troublesome in hawking after the sun be ' comes hot, mistaking the jesses for some kind of prey, and pouncing on the falcon to seize it. Mr.
(Sir) W. Elliot once or twice nearly lost shahin (Falco peregrinator) in consequence, they flying to great distances for fear of the wokhab or jimach. The principal hawks employed in Indian falconry are identical with those of Europe, namely, the Bhyri of India, which is the peregrine falcon, or F. peregrinus, Gniel., of the west ; and the Baz of India, Astur palumbarius, Linn., which is the goshawk or ' gentil ' falcon of Britain: In a Persian treatise by the head falconer of the emperor Akbar, the various species used are enumerated, and may be recognised with precision ; among them is the Shangar, which is clearly the gyr falcon of the north, represented as extremely rare and valuable, taken perhaps once or twice only in a century, and then generally in the Panjab.