1892.] D. Praia — Fauna of Narcowlam and Barren Island. 109 



to make out what Ghiassuddin this was. I beg to suggest that it was 

 Bahadur Khan or Bahadur Shah who also had the name of Ghias or 

 Ghiassuddin. (See Thomas and the Biyaz.) Bahadur Shah was skin- 

 ned according to Ibn Batuta and the skin was taken to Delhi, but the 

 body may have remained. 



The other name of Ghiasabad is Badrihat (not Bodrihat, or Badri- 

 hat) and Hunter speaks of this as the Hindu name. But this is doubt- 

 ful. May it not be a contraction for Bahadurihat, i. e., the market of 

 Bahadur Shah ? 



I have not visited the Ghiaspur or the other side of the river. It 

 is about 2 miles higher up the river than Ghiasabad. I am told that 

 there is nothing there, that the place has been washed away, and that 

 there is also jungle. Bahadur Shah, or Ghias, whoever he was, may 

 have had his city on both sides of the river just like Murshiclabad was. 

 Ghiaspur is disguised in the map under the name Goyespoor. If the 

 Ghias of Ghiasabad be not Bahadur Shah he may be the Ghiassuddin 

 who was killed in battle with JSasiruddin. The words "nearGaur" 

 may be a mistake. Of course Ghiasabad may really be Ghiaspur. 



3. Remarks on the Fauna of Narcondam and Barren Island. — By 

 D. Prain, Esq., M. B. 



During a botanical visit to these two islands, the results of 

 which are now being elaborated, the writer, though unable and 

 indeed unqualified to devote much attention to their fauna, could not 

 avoid coming in contact to some extent with their animal and insect 

 life. And perhaps his few rough notes made at the time, if thrown 

 into a connected form, may induce by their perusal some qualified 

 animal biologist to visit and investigate them thoroughly. In Mr. 

 Mallet's exhaustive monograph of the geological structure and physio- 

 graphical aspects of the islands* their flora and fauna are only 

 casually mentioned ; similarly, in the writer's forthcoming notice of their 

 vegetation, there can be but incidental allusions to their topography, 

 geology, or zoology. Yet from what the writer was himself able to 

 observe it is pi*obable that their zoology will prove as interesting as 

 their geology or their botany. It need hardly be said that the notes 

 which follow allude entirely to air-breathing creatures and that no 

 reference will be made to the marine fauna of the localities. 



Mammalia : — A rat swarms everywhere on both islands and is the 

 most plentiful mammal present. Examples preserved in the Indian 

 Museum, obtained in Barren Island by Mr. Oldham, show that the 



* Memoir* of the Geol. Survey of [•niiti, vol. xxi, pp. 251— 2SG. 



