1900.] Abdul W^\[— Plague in India. . 85 



India, as the Plague in the same tract in the reign of the Emperor 

 Aurangzeb was far more severe than the one that had broken out in 

 Jahangir's time. 



3, That the symptoms of the disease stated are on fours with 

 those of the pestilence now raging in India. 



No record of an outbreak of the Plague in Bengal is to be found.* 

 The present outbreak has shown that Bengal is not the place where 

 the disease can take a firm hold. Had there been no railways or 

 steam-ships, or were not Calcutta the Capital of Hindustan, it is likely 

 that Bengal would have escaped entirely this time also. 



It is for the leisured antiquarians to find out, from the extant 

 records and Chronicles, of the past, if there were other outbreaks of the 

 disease in India in pre-British times. 



2. Note on the occurrence of RJiodospiza obsoleta, Licht., in the 

 Tochi Valley.~By Captain H. J. Wa'Lton, I.M.S. 



3. On the Birds collected and observed in the Southern Shan States 

 of Upper Burma. — By Col. C, T. Bin(^ham, F.Z.S., and H. N. Thompson, 

 P.Z.S. Communicated by the Natural History Secretary. 



4. \ On the form of Cormorant i^ihahiting the Crozette Islands. — By 

 F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum 

 (with exhibition of specimen). \ 



5. On two rare Indian Pheasants. — By F. FiNN, B.A., F.Z.S., 

 Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and Lieutenant H. H. 

 Turner (with exhibition of specimen). 



6. Notes on the structure and function of the tracheal hulb in male 

 Anatid^.— JB2/ F. FiN^n, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum. \ 



The papers will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



* Tlie unhealtliiness, for which the old Capital of Bengal, Gaur, was deserted 

 in the sixteenth century A.D., was not I suppose on account of the Plague. 



