[141.] Phil. Trans. Abridg., ii. 781–3.

[142.] Phil. Trans. Abridg., ii. 782.

[143.] Shaw, Zool., vi. 25.

[144.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 179.

[145.] Anderson’s Recr. in Agric., iii. 420.

[146.] Anim. Biog., iii. 233.

[147.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[148.] Ibid.

[149.] Shaw’s Zool., vi. 88.

[150.] Tennent, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 405.