ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. 119 
NOTES ON ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE IN THE 
VEDDA COUNTRY. 
By FrRepERIcK Lewis, F.L.S. 
(With one map.) 
HE locality to which these notes apply represents the 
whole of the Maha Wedirata, the eastern half of the 
Buttala-Wedirata, and the southern half of the Panawa 
Pattu of the Eastern Province. 
This large extent of country falls within part of Uva from 
the Monaragala range eastwards, and, as indicated above, 
part of the Eastern Province, or more specifically within the 
following rough boundaries. Starting from the conspicuous 
needle-pointed mountain called Wadinagala on the north, 
it follows the provincial limits of the Eastern Province to 
the point where it crosses the Government cart road from 
Potuvil to Muppane. From that point the road to Muppane 
is adopted as far at Potuvil, from thence following the sea- 
coast to Kumuna on the banks of the Kumbukkan river. 
Next the Kumbukkan river is followed to a point called 
Kebilitte, at the foot of the imposing mass of rock shown on 
the Admiralty charts as “ Chimney Hill.” From here, a 
line drawn to Sirigala and thence to Wadinagala encloses 
the whole. 
Within this area there is only one perennial river—the 
Kumbukkan-aar, which forms the southern limit of the 
region in question. The next largest stream is the Heda-oya, 
which in the north-east monsoon is a wide and formidable 
river. To the north the Lankiya-oya is an important stream, 
which is supplemented by several considerable branches that 
after uniting with it form a great branch of the Namal-oya. 
The Govindu-oya, rising on the east flank of the “ West- 
minster Abbey,” forms a useful branch of the Karandi-oya 
that drains the eastern half of the Maha Wedirata country, 
