CONTENTS.THE ELEPHANTMAMMALIA.
- Neglect of zoology in Ceylon [3]
- Labours of Dr. Davy[3]
- Followed by Dr. Templeton and others [4]
- Dr. Kelaart and Mr. E.L. Layard [4]
- Monkeys [5]
- The Rilawa, Macacus pileatus [5]
- Wanderoos[5]
- Knox's account of them [5]
- Error regarding the Silenus Veter (note) [6]
- Presbytes Cephalopterus [7]
- Fond of eating flowers [7]
- A white monkey [8]
- Method of the flight of monkeys [9]
- P. Ursinus in the Hills [9]
- P. Thersites in the Wanny [10]
- P. Priamus, Jaffna and Trincomalie [10]
- No dead monkey ever found [11]
- Loris [12]
- Bats [13]
- Flying Fox, Pteropus Edwardsii [14]
- Their numbers at Peradenia [16]
- Singularity of their attitudes [17]
- Food and mode of eating [18]
- Horse-shoe bat, Rhinolophus [19]
- Faculty of smell in bat [19]
- A tiny bat, Scotophilus foromandelicus [20]
- Extraordinary parasite of the bat, the Nycteribia
[20]
- Carnivora.—Bears [22]
- Singhalese belief in the efficacy of charms (note)
[24]
- Leopards [25]
- Erroneously confounded with the Indian cheetah [25]
- Curious belief [26]
- Anecdotes of leopards [27]
- Their attraction by the smallpox [28]
- Native superstition [28]
- Encounter with a leopard [29]
- Monkeys killed by leopards [31]
- Alleged peculiarity of the claws [32]
- Palm-cat [32]
- Civet [32]
- Dogs [33]
- Cruel mode of destroying dogs[33]
- Their republican instincts[34]
- Jackal [34]
- Cunning, anecdotes of [35]
- The horn of the jackal [36]
- Mungoos [37]
- Its fights with serpents[38]
- Theory of its antidote [40]
- Squirrels [41]
- Tree-rat [42]
- Story of a rat and a snake [43]
- Coffee-rat [43]
- Bandicoot [44]
- Porcupine [45]
- Pengolin [46]
- Its habits and gentleness [47]
- Its skeleton [48]
- Ruminantia.—The Gaur [49]
- Oxen [50]
- Humped cattle [51]
- Encounter of a cow and a leopard [51]
- Draft oxen [52]
- Their treatment [53]
- A Tavalam [53]
- Attempt to introduce the camel (note) [53]
- Buffaloes [54]
- Sporting buffaloes [55]
- Peculiar structure of the foot [56]
- Deer [57]
- Meminna [57]
- Elk [59]
- Wild-boar [59]
- Elephants [60]
- Recent discovery of a new species [60]
- Geological speculations as to the island of Ceylon [61]
- Ancient tradition [61]
- Opinion of Professor Ansted [61]
- Peculiarities in Ceylon mammalia [63]
- The same in Ceylon birds and insects [63]
- Temminck's discovery of a new species of elephant in Sumatra
[64]
- Points of distinction between it and the elephant of India
[65]
- Professor Schlegel's description [66]
- Cetacea [68]
- Whales [68]
- The Dugong [69]
- Origin of the fable of the mermaid [70]
- Credulity of the Portuguese [70]
- Belief of the Dutch [70]
- Testimony of Valentyn [71]
- List of Ceylon mammalia [73]