1872.] Srooks on the Swans of India. 63 



Asam Rajahs attacked Koch Hajo, and forced the Imperialists to withdraw 

 from the province. This repulse was the cause of Mir Jumlah's expedition 

 to Asam in 1662. 



Mir Jumlah invaded Koch Bihar, recovered Koch Hajo, and occupied 

 Central and Eastern Asam for fourteen months. The most eastern part to 

 which he advanced is marked by the intersection of Long. 95° and Lat. 27°, 

 or the districts east of Sibsagar and Nazirah. In the expedition to Ra- 

 khang (Arakan), which was undertaken immediately after Mir Jumlah's death, 

 the most southern part which the Mughuls reached, is Ramu or Rambd, half 

 way between Chatganw (Chittagong) and Akyab. Beyond these two points 

 the Muliammadans did not advance. 



Mr. Blochmann has collected all notes regarding Koch Bihar, Koch 

 Hajo (the ' kingdom of Azo' of early European travellers in India) and 

 Asam, from the Akbarnamah, the Tuzuk i Jahangiri, and the Padishahna- 

 mah. He then gives a free translation of the Fathiyali i ^Ihriyah, or, as the 

 book is sometimes called, Tdrikh i ^aih i A'shdm (Conquest of Asam), in 

 1662 by Mir Jumlah. The author of this work, a native of Persia, was a 

 clerk in the employ of Mir Jumlah, and wrote the book in 1662-63, because 

 the official reporters, in Mir Jumlah's opinion, did not send correct accounts 

 of the progress of the expedition to court. The author of the ^Alamgirna- 

 mali appears to have used the Fathiyali i ^Ihriyah for his history. 



Shihab's work contains many interesting remarks on Asam and the 

 Asamese, and on several of the aboriginal tribes. The book ends with the 

 death of Mir Jumlah, on the 2nd Ramazan, 1073 at Khizrpur was Dhaka. 



The paper will be printed in the first part of the Journal for 1872. 



The reading of the two following papers was postponed — 

 8. — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce^ Fart IV, — hy Surgeon F. Day. 

 9. — N'otes on the Beptilian Fauna of Katch, — hy Dr. E. Stoliczka. 



The following communication was received. 



The Muhammadan Inscriptions of Bihar, — hy A. Broadley, Esq., C. S., 

 and H. Blochmanis', Esq., M. A. 



The Swans of India, — hy W. E. Beooks, C. E., Ftdwah. 

 (Reed. 18tli December, 1871.) 



Dr. Jerdon, in his third volume of the Birds of India, page 778, appears 

 to doubt the occurrence of swans in India. 



Amongst Mr. Hodgson's original drawings is one of a swan in mature 

 plumage, which, judging from the diamond shaped yellow patch at the base 

 of the bill, on each side of the upper mandible, is undoubtedly Oygnus ferus. 



