BIRDS.

Their numbers [241]
Songsters [241]
Hornbills, the "bird with two heads" [242]
Pea fowl [244]
Sea birds, their number [245]
I. Accipitres.—Eagles [245]
- Falcons and hawks [246]
- Owls—the devil bird [247]
II. Passeres.—Swallows [248]
- Kingfishers—sunbirds [249]
- The cotton-thief [250]
- Bul-bul—tailor bird—and weaver [251]
- The mountain jay [253]
- Crows, anecdotes of [253]
III. Scansores.—Parroquets [256]
IV. Columbidæ.—Pigeons [257]
V. Gallinæ.—Jungle-fowl [259]
VI. Grallæ.—Ibis, stork, &c. [260]
VII. Anseres.—Flamingoes [261]
- Pelicans [262]
- Strange scene [263]
- Game—Partridges, &c. [265]
List of Ceylon birds [265]
List of birds peculiar to Ceylon [269]