4 Mr. Bodgcrs on Coins of Gazni Sultans. [Jatt. 



not occur to the east of Sirguja ; but since that time I have found that 

 it is not uncommon in Palamow, having been seen by me as far east as 

 Latiahar, Long. 84 35' E. 



Again in a paper on the distribution of birds throughout the region 

 extending from the Ganges to the Godavari,* I have pointed out that 

 there were indications that Palamow, in consequence of the occurrence 

 within its limits of certain species would in all probability prove to belong 

 to a region or sub-province of geographical distribution distinct from that 

 which includes the rest of Chutia Nagpur. 



Although the lion mentioned by Surgeon Breton may have been a 

 stray or solitary one, the fact that Palamow is up to the present day 

 included in the range of the Gazelle, would seem to shew that it had not 

 wandered beyond its legitimate province. This, taken with the fact that 

 the Gazelle and some species of birds keep within these boundaries which 

 are not limited on the south by more than an easily traversable range 

 of hills, affords a case of limitation of distribution sufficiently remarkable 

 to be worthy of permanent record. 



3. A find of coins struck by Gazni Sultans in Lahore. — By C. J. 

 Eodgers, Principal, College Amritsar. 



Some time ago in wandering about the city of Amritsar, as I am 

 pretty well known as an old coin collector, a young Sarraf asked me to 

 look at some coins he had just received. There were two small bags full 

 of them, so I asked permission to take them home and examine them, 

 at my leisure. This was readily granted. On getting them home I 

 examined them, and they proved to be coins of Masaud I of Gazni, Maudud, 

 Abd-ur Rashid, Farrukhzad and Ibrahim, struck in Lahore. 



The coins of Masaud were of the horse and bull type with the name 

 ^*^<«o over the horse. But there were several varieties of this exceedingly 

 rare coin. Several had the name just as I have written it. Some had 

 ^•s^° ^*wo which is very strange, as the two brothers were deadly enemies 

 to each other. Some had t>y+s?° ,ij.*wo which is not so strange, as Masaud 

 was son of Mahmud. Some had o^*-"-* which is only a variety of the 

 first. I did not notice one with &+s/° simply on it, although Thomas in 

 the Chronicles of the Pathan kings says that Sir E. C. Bayley has one of 

 these coins with Muhammad on it and one with Masaud. + From this 

 I infer that Mr. Thomas knew of no others. Before this find I had 

 three of Masaud's of this type, and the Rev. J. Doxie has one of Muham- 

 mad. Two of the coins of this find had a new name over the horse ojdyo. 

 There is no mint mark on these coins. But as they were found with a 



* Stray Feathers, Vol. VIII. 



t Thomas gives a figure of this coin of Masaud on p. 68. 



