Page 225, first line. For Crows’ read Parrots’.
Page 227. In Sagas from the Far East, p. 309, when a wise parrot saw a man take a large net to spread over their tree, the parrots roosted on a rock. Refusing the leader’s advice to move again they were netted, and escaped as in the Sinhalese story, when the bird-catcher counted, “Seventy-one.”
Page 230. Mr. Pieris has pointed out in his recent work, Ceylon, vol. i, p. 554, that Nayide was formerly an honorific title of the sons of Chiefs. It is not now so applied.
Page 233. See also The Jātaka, No. 546 (vol. vi, p. 167), where one of the tasks of Mahōsadha was to overcome the difficulty said to have arisen through the royal bull’s being in calf; he settled it by a question.
In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 49, an oilman claimed that his bull bore a calf that a man left near it. The calf-owner was assisted by a night-jar and a jackal, which after pretending to sleep related their dreams; the former had seen one egg sitting on another, the latter had been eating the fishes burnt when the sea got on fire. When the jackal explained that they were as probable as the bull’s bearing a calf, the man got it back.
Page 240. In Les Avadānas, No. lvi, vol. i, p. 199. a turtle escaped when a boy at a man’s recommendation threw it into water to drown it. This is given in Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues, vol. ii, p. 230, in which work also two forms of the earlier part of the Sinhalese tale appear. In vol. i, p. 404, a single large crane carried away the turtle in its bill. While passing over a town the turtle continually asked “What’s this? What’s that?” At last the crane opened its mouth to reply, and the turtle fell and was killed and eaten. In vol. ii, pp. 340 and 430, the birds were two wild-geese, and the turtle let itself fall when it spoke. It was killed by the fall in one variant, and by children in the other.
In Sagas from the Far East, p. 215, in a Kalmuk tale, a frog advised a crow that had caught it to wash it before eating it. When the crow put it into a streamlet it crept into a hole in the rock and escaped.
Page 244. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 329, the animals which raced were an elephant and some ants. Whenever the elephant looked down it saw two ants on the ground, and at last it died of exhaustion. The challenging ants never ran; ants were so numerous that some were always to be seen.
In The Fetish Folk of West Africa (Milligan), p. 214, a chameleon challenged an elephant to race through the forest. After starting it turned back, having arranged that others should be at the end of each stage.
Page 240. In Kaffir Folk-Lore, p. 187, when a lion who had been cheated by a jackal chased it, the jackal took refuge in a hole under a tree, but the lion seized its tail as it entered. The jackal said, “That is not my tail you have hold of; it is a root of the tree.” The lion then let go, and the jackal escaped into the hole.