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- Their numbers [241]
- Songsters [241]
- Hornbills, the "bird with two heads" [242]
- Pea fowl [244]
- Sea birds, their number [245]
- I. Accipitres.—Eagles [245]
- 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]
- List of Ceylon birds [265]
- List of birds peculiar to Ceylon [269]
REPTILES.
- Lizards.—Iguana [271]
- Kabara-goya, barbarous custom in preparing the kabara-tel
poison [272]
- Blood-suckers [275]
- The green calotes [276]
- The lyre-headed lizard [277]
- Chameleon [278]
- Ceratophora [279]
- Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs [281]
- Crocodiles [282]
- Their sensitiveness to tickling [285]
- Anecdotes of crocodiles [286]
- Their power of burying themselves in the mud [286]
- Tortoises.—Curious parasite [289]x
- Terrapins [290]
- Edible turtle [291]
- Cruel mode of cutting it up alive [291]
- Huge Indian tortoises (note) [293]
- Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the
tortoise-shell [293]
- Serpents.—Venomous species rare [294]
- Tic polonga and carawala [296]
- Cobra de capello [297]
- Tame snakes (note) [298]
- Anecdotes of the cobra de capello [298]
- Legends concerning it [299]
- Instance of land snakes found at sea [300]
- Singular tradition regarding the robra de capello [300]
- Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon
[302]
- Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello [303]
- The Python [303]
- Tree snakes [305]
- Water snakes [306]
- Sea snakes [306]
- Snake stones [312]
- Analysis of one [315]
- Cæcilia [317]
- Frogs [317]
- Tree frogs [320]
- List of Ceylon reptiles [321]
FISHES.
- Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known [323]
- Fish for table, seir fish [324]
- Sardines, poisonous? [324]
- Sharks [325]
- Saw-fish [325]
- Fish of brilliant colours [326]
- The ray [326]
- The sword-fish [328]
- Curious fish described by Ælian [330]
- Salarias alticus [332]
- Beautifully coloured fishes [332]
- Fresh-water fish, little known,—not much eaten [335]
- Fresh-water fish in Colombo Lake [336]
- Perches [336]
- Eels [337]
- Immense profusion of fish in the rivers and lakes [339]
- Their re-appearance after rain [340]
- Mode of fishing in the ponds [340]
- Showers of fish [341]
- Conjecture that the ova are preserved, not tenable [342]
- Fish moving on dry land [344]
- Ancient authorities, Greek and Roman [345]
- Aristotle and Theophrastus [346]
- Athenæus and Polybius [346]
- Livy, Pompomus, Mela, and Juvenal [346]
- Seneca and Pliny [346]
- Georgius Agricola, Gesner, &c. [347]
- Instances in Guiana (note) [347]
- Perca Scandens, ascends trees [348]
- Doubts as to the story of Daldorf [350]
- Fishes burying themselves daring the dry season [351]
- The protopterus of the Gambia [352]
- Instances in the fish of the Nile [352]
- Instances in the fish of South America [353]
- Living fish dug out of the ground in the dry tanks in Ceylon
[354]
- Molluscs that bury themselves [355]
- The animals that so bury themselves in India [357]
- Analogous case of [8]
- Theory of æstivation and hybernation [358]
- Fish in hot water in Ceylon [358]
- List of Ceylon fishes [359]
- Instances of fishes falling from the clouds [362]
- Note on Ceylon fishes by Professor Huxley [364]
- Comparative note by Dr. Gray, Brit. Mus. [366]
- Note on the Bora-chung [367]
MOLLUSCA, RADIATA, AND ACALEPHÆ.