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- Lizards.—Iguana [182]
- Kabragoya, barbarous custom in preparing the cobra-tel
poison (note) [183]
- The green calotes [184]
- Chameleon [184]
- Ceratophora [185]
- Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs [185], [186]
- Crocodiles [186]
- Their power of burying themselves in the mud [187]
- Tortoises—Curious parasite [188]
- Land tortoises [189]
- Edible turtle [190]
- Huge Indian tortoises (note) [190]
- Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the
tortoise-shell [190]
- Serpents.—Venomous species rare [191]
- Cobra de capello [192]
- Instance of land snakes found at sea [193]
- Tame snakes (note) [193]
- Singular tradition regarding the cobra de capello [194]
- Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon [195]
- Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello [195]
- Anecdotes of snakes [196]
- The Python [196]
- Water snakes [197]
- Snake stones [197]
- Analysis of one [199]
- Cæcilia [201]
- Large frogs [202]
- Tree frogs [202]
- List of Ceylon reptiles [203]
CHAP. IV.
FISHES.
- Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known [205]
- Fish for table, seir fish [205]
- Sardines, poisonous? [206]
- Sharks [207]
- Saw-fish [207]
- Fish of brilliant colours [207]
- Curious fish described by Ælian (note) [207]
- Fresh-water fish, little known,—not much eaten [208]
- Fresh-water fish in Colombo Lake [209]
- Immense profusion of fish in the rivers and lakes [209]
- Their re-appearance after rain [209]
- Mode of fishing in the ponds [210]
- Showers of fish [210]
- Conjecture that the ova are preserved, not tenable [212]
- Fish moving on dry land [213]
- Instances in Guiana (note) [214]
- Perca Scandens, ascends trees [215]
- Doubts as to the story of Daldorf [217]
- Fishes burying themselves during the dry season [218]
- The protopterus of the Gambia [218]
- Instances in the fish of the Nile [218]
- Instances in the fish of South America [219]
- Living fish dug out of the ground in the dry tanks in
Ceylon [220]
- Other animals that so bury themselves, Melaniæ, Ampullariæ,
&c. [220]
- The animals that so bury themselves in India (note)
[220]
- Analogous case of (note) [221]
- Theory of æstivation and hybernation [221]
- Fish in hot-water in Ceylon [224]
- List of Ceylon fishes [224]
- Instances of fishes failing from the clouds [226]
- Overland migration of fishes known to the Greeks and Romans
[227]
- Note on Ceylon fishes by Professor Huxley [229]
- Comparative note by Dr. Gray, Brit. Mus.[231]
CHAP. V.
MOLLUSCA, RADIATA, AND ACALEPHÆ.
- I. Conchology—General character of Ceylon shells
[233]
- Confusion regarding them in scientific works and
collections [234]
- List of Ceylon shells [235]
- II. Radiata.—Star fish [244]
- III. Acalephæ, abundant [246]
- Corals little known [246]
CHAP. VI.
INSECTS.