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[141] Khān，140-41.

[142] 例如，可参见相关评论Marco Polo. The Description of the World. Trans. A.C.Moule and Paul Pelliot. London：Routledge，1938. Vol. Ⅰ.118，160-61，and 470，and Bābur，Ẓahir al-Dīn. The Bābur-nāma in English. Trans. Annette Susannah Beveridge. London：Luzac，1969.224 and 325。

[143] Nīshāpūrī，Ẓahir al-Dīn. The History of the Seljuq Turks from the al-Tawārīkh：An Ilkhanid Adaptation of the Saljūqnāma of Ẓahir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī. Trans. Kenneth Allin Luther，ed. C.Edmund Bosworth. Richmond，Surrey：Curzon，2001.99；，519，波斯语文本，and 223，俄语译本；and Munshī，Iskander. History of Shah . Trans. Roger Savory. Boulder，Colo.：Westview Press，1978.II，1165。

[144] 卡维尔沙漠（Dasht-i-Kavir），波斯语中意为“大盐漠”，位于伊朗北中部的干燥盆地里。

[145] New York Times，January 8，2000，F5.

[146] Sterndale，Robert A. 1982 Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon. 1884. Reprint Delhi：Himalayan Books.201.

[147] 大君（maharajah）是梵文中对统治者的称呼，意为“伟大的君王”。

[148] Hawkins，R. E.，ed. 1986 Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History. Delhi：Oxford University Press.103-4 and 135.有关克隆波斯猎豹并将其重新引入印度的计划，请参见New York Times，February 1，2003，A3。

[149] Gryaznov，Mikhail 1969 South Siberia. London：Cresset Press.158-59；ANE Pritchard，James B.，ed.，The Ancient Near East：An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton，N.J.：Princeton University Press，1973.II，239；and Jahāngīr. Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī or Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Trans. Alexander Rogers，ed. Henry Beveridge. Reprint Delhi：Munshiram Mansharlal，1978.I，369.

[150] 合赞（Ghazan，公元1295～1304年在位）是统治波斯的伊利汗国的蒙古可汗。成吉思汗的孙子旭烈兀在波斯建立了伊利汗国（1256～1335），他的另一个孙子忽必烈则在中国建立了元朝（1271～1368），这两大家族同属成吉思汗后裔。

[151] Rashīd/K Rashīd al-Dīn. al-tavārīkh. Ed. Karīmī. Tehran：Eqbal，1959.II，1099 and 1100，and Jahāngīr. Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī or Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Trans. Alexander Rogers，ed. Henry Beveridge. Reprint Delhi：Munshiram Mansharlal，1978.I，240.

[152] 有关捕食的信息，请参见al-Manṣūr Al-Mansur’s Book on Hunting. Trans. Sir Terence Clark and Muawiya Derhalli. Warminster：Aris & Phillips，2001.49。

[153] Thompson，Robert and Hobart F. Landreth 1973 “Reproduction in Captive Cheetahs.” In Randall L. Eaton，ed.，The World of Cats，vol. 2，Biology，Behavior，and Management of Reproduction. Seattle：Feline Research Group，pp.162-67.

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[155] Caro，T.M. 1994 Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains：Group Living in an Asocial Species，Chicago：University of Chicago Press.358-63；Kitchener，Andrew 1991