toca 
Laughing Thrushes, 8 
Layard’s Parroquet, 18 
Layard’s Woodpecker, 15, 29 
Lecanium, 71 
Leech, Common—Range of, 79 
Legge’s Baza, 19 
Legge’s Flower-pecker, 13, 26, 28 
Legge’s Hawk Eagle, 19 
Legge’ s Indo-Ceylonese District, 31 
Lenama, 128 
Leopard, 135 
« Lepidopterous pupa, 78 
- Lesser Sand Plover, 201 
Light Corpuscular theory, 50 
Lincolnshire, 54 
List of Birds observed in the Vedda 
Country during July, 1914, giving 
Local Distribution, 158 , 
Little Bronze-wing Pigeon, 20 
Little Ceylon Hornbill, 16 
Little Cormorant (the), 292, 294 
Little Egret, 314, 318 
Little Green Bittern (the), 321 
Little Ringed Plover, 202, 210 
Little Scops Owl, 18 
Littie Stint, 216, 229, 231 
Liyangalla, 142, 152, 159, 161, 163 
Lizards—how they bathe, 177 
Locustid-nymphal, 77 
Lombok, 2 
Long-toed Stint, 216, 230 
Lunagalla Hills, 139 
Lybian, 170 
Madagascar, 5, 240 
Madras, 8 
Madras tract, 3 
Madulsima, 380, 381 
Madura, 264 
Magpie, Ceylon, 7 
Mahableswar, 4 
Maha-oya, 160 
Maha Wedirata, 119, 123, 124, 134, 
148, 149 
Mahaweli-ganga, 210 
Malabar, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 29, 32 
Malabar Coast, 4, 18-20 
Malabar Contingent, 18 
Malabar District, 9, 17 
Malabar Element, 31 
Malabar—Fauna of the, 5 
Malabar Hills, 12, 16, 18 
Malabar Green Bubul, 9 
Malabar Races, 14 
Malabar Rufous Woodpecker, 14 
Malabar species, 32 
Malabar tract, 4-6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 28 
Malabar Trogon, 17 
Malabar type, 27 
Malay Archipelago, 2, 183, 224, 238 
Malay Bittern, 23, 314, 323 
Malay Peninsula, 19, 185 
Malaya, 5, 23 
Malayan Bird, 13 
Malayan Fauna, 9, 17 
Maliacez, 145 
Mammalia, Ceylon—Records of, 384 
Manawela, 136, 159 
Mangroves, 148 
) 
Mannar, 4, 8, 25, 30, 166, 194, 202, 204, 
207, 250, 252, 234 
Mannar Coast, 8,11 
Man-of-war Bird, 290 
Mano-kokka, 165 
Mardi, 121 
Margosa, 145 
Marichchukkaddi, 166 
Mars, 48 
Marsh Sandpiper, 223 
Masked Booby (the), 297 
Maskeliya, 66, 118, 380, 381 
Matale, 66, 117 
Matara, 31, 66 
Matara District, 140 
Maturata, 66 
Mavittapuram, 264 
Mediterranean, 4; 233, 239, 251 
Mediterranean—Shores of ‘the, 226 
Melastomacious Plants, 148 
Mergansers, 329 
Microlepidoptera—Description of, 380 
Middle Azes—Beliefs of, 36 
Migrant Birds, 28 
Mihintale, 265 
Milla, 153 
Mineralogical Survey, Ceylon, 2, 32 
Minneri, 197, 209, 210, 213, 249, 257, 
294 
Miriabedde, 139 
Moderagam-aar, 166, 167 
Modern Veddas, 63 
Mollusca, Ceylon—Records of, 394 
Monara-gala, 21, 119, 120, 122, 139, 
142, 153, 155, 158-165 
Monaragala Range, 120 
Monara-natana-hena, 21 
Monitor, 138 
Moor Hen, 22, 182 
Moor Hen or Water Hen, 187 
Mora, Sinhalese, 146 
Moramalpokunna, 159 
Morawak Korale, 16 
Morduli Portus, 121 
Moth, Death’s-head, 78 
Mountains : their Origin, Growth, 168 
Mouse Deer, 138 
Muduwa, 159, 161, 162 
Mullaittivu, 334 
Munamal, 151 
Mun 135 
Muppane, 119, 136, 138, 140, 152, 
159-163 
Musk Rat, 136 
Mustard Tree, 135 
Mycologists, 33 
Myrtaceex, 148 
Mysore, 3 

Nahmaluwahela, 135 
Namal-oya, 119 
Nambanna, 162 
Nangalla, 152 
Natural History octatin Ceylon, 262, 
284, 285 
Natural Philosophy, 37 
Nature of Interpretation (the), 33, 45 
Naucoride, 76 
Nawalapitiya, 66 
