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Chisels, 67 
Chomanturai of the Tamils, 144 
Church Hill, 58, 59, 60 
Cloth of the Bark of the Ritti, 125 
Coasts of India, 297 
Cobras, 139 
Coemena, 121 
Collared Scops Owl, 18 
Colombo, 18, 26, 27, 30, 205, 207, 244, 
297, 302 
Colombo Drainage Works at Wella- 
watta, 261, 263 
Colombo Museum, 54, 83, 117 
Comb Duck, 331, 423 
Common Bulbul, 9 
Common Bustard Quail, 21 
Common Ceylon Mynah, 11 
Common Heron (the), 316 
Common Leech—R ange of, 79 
Common or Fantail Snipe, 235, 237 
Common Peafowl (the), 367 
Common Sandpiper, 215, 220 
Common Teal, 332, 339 
Common Tern, 246, 254 
Coot, 189 
Coppersmith, 15 
Cormorants, 287, 288, 291, 292, 296 
Cosmclogies, 36, 37 
Cotton Teal, 331, 332, 336 
Coueal, 17 
Coursers, 190, 194 
Crab Plover, 22, 190, 193, 241 
Crakes, 180 
Crake, the Banded, 181, 184 
Crake, the Eastern Baillon’ s, 183 
Cranes, 22, 180 
Crescentic, 61 
Crested Drongos, 10 
Crow, 7 
Crow Pheasant, 17 
Crowned Hornbill, 16 
Cuckoos, 17, 160 
Cucurbitacez, 146 
Curlews, 200, 214, 215, 303 
Curlew Stint, 217, 232 
Dab-chick, 23 
Dabchick, the Indian Little Grebe or, 
345 
Dambulla, 21 
Danakiria, 145, 152 
_ Danakirigalla, 159, 164 
Danakirigama, 136 
Darters, 288, 291, 295 
Death of Mr. Andrew Rutherford, 116 
Death’s-head Moth, 78 
Deccan tract, 3 
Degalhella, 120, 143, 159, 161 
Dehra Dun, 78) 
Delft, breeding Horses on the Island 
of, 263 
Delwita Estate, 117 
Dendrocygna javanica, 23 
Description of Microlepidoptera, 380 
Devil Bird, 18 
Dhoby Hillock, 60 
Dikwella, 12 

Dilleniace, 142 
Dipterous larva, 72 
Dissan Hamy, 124 
Diving Ducks, 331 
Diyatalawa, 66 
Do Rat-snakes Strike, 177 
Dolosbage, 62, 66 
Domestic Aninals, 133 
Donside, 66 
Doves, 19, 347, 348, 349, 357, 358 
Drainage Works at Wellawatta, 
Colombo, 261, 263 
Dreikante, 169 
Drill Points, 66 
Drongo Cuckoo, 17 
Drongo family, 10 
Drongos, 17 
Droseracee, 148 
Ducks, 23, 327, 329, 330, 333 
Dunumadala, 127 
Dusky Blue Flycatcher, 11 
Dutch, 271 
Dynastides, 77 
East Africa, 194. 
Eastern Baillon’s Crake, 181, 183 
Eastern Golden Plover, 201, 205 
Eastern Himalayas, 18 
Eastern Province, 32, 119, 161 
Eastern Purple Heron (the), 315 
Echini—Pacific, 100 
Echini—Revisicon of, 100 
Kehinoderms from Ceylon, list of, 
in the Colombo Museum, 84 
Echinoderms of Ceylon (other than 
Holothurians), 83-102 
Eggs, fertilizing filaments in, 40 
Elephant, 137 
Ellebubbura, 159, 161, 163 
England, 57 
England and Ireland land connection, 
Equus Zeylanicus, 261 
Eth.opian Region, 2 
Etmole, 144, 148, 158, 159, 160, 161, 
' 162, 164 
Ettampitiya path, 60 
Eugenia, 78 
Euphorbia, trees, 364 
Europe, 25 
European Turtle Dove, 362 
Evolution, 41, 42 
Exposure of the sedimentary beds, 172 
Eye-snake, 177 
Faceted Stones, peculiarity of, 170 
Fairy Blue Bird, 9 
Fan-tailed Flycatcher, 12, 139 
Fauna of British India, 75 
Fauna of the Gulf of Mannar—Notes 
on, 83 
Feather-stars, 92 
Finches, 12 
Flamingos, 164, 327 
Flight of Brana Callopasa, 282 
Flycatchers, 11 
Flying Fox, 136 
Did-he-do-it—Note on the breeding} Forest Bulbul, 9 
Habits of the, 397 
Digalhella, 164 ~~ 
Forest Eagle Owl, 18, 26 
Fort at Galle, 1 18 
