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Mid-West Cheval Paar, 255 



Mihintale, 120 



Mihintale — Naga Pokuna, 120 



Minivet (Orange), 273 



Minneriya, 22 



Minots Microtome, 17 



Moderagam Paar, 257 



Moor-hen, 30, 31 



Moor-hen (White-breasted), 31 



Moths, 36 



Mount Pedro, 3 



Miilleria, 163-172 



Mungoose, 43 



Munia, 34 



Munia (Black-bellied), 271 



Munia (Hill), 271 



Munich, 176 



Muttikallam, 137 



Muttuvaratu Paar, 260 



Mynah, 33 



Mynah (Hill), 34 



Myriapods, 109 



Nachchikuda Bay, 135, 136 



Nadalaikula Paar, 261 



Nadukudda Paar, 253 



Naga Pokuna, 120 



Nalanda, 9 



Natural History (Ceylon) — Pioneers, 



41-43 

 Natural History Society, Ceylon, 48, 



148, 274 

 Natural History Society (Ceylon) — 



proceedings of meetings, 48, 148, 274 

 Navakkaduwa Paar, 261 

 Nawalapitiya, 1, 122 

 Neolithic, 123 

 Neolithic Age, 118 

 Neolithic savage, 121 

 Neolithic type, 123 

 New Stone Age, 118 

 Nidification (Ceylon Birds), 21-35 

 Night-jar (Kelaart's), 271 

 Night-jars, 30 

 Nitre Cave, 38 



North-Central Cheval Paar, 256 

 North Cheval Paar, 254 

 North-East Cheval Paar, 254 

 Northern Province, 39 

 North-West Cheval Paar, 256 

 Nuthatch (Indian Blue), 273 

 Nutmegs, 42 

 Nuwara Eliya, 3, 38, 39 

 Nuwara EHya Birds, 271-274 



Old Dutch Jaggerboom Bank, 257 

 Old Stone Age, 118 

 Orange-breasted Green Pigeon, 25 

 Orinthologists (Ceylon), 21 

 Oriole (Golden), 29, 33 



Palaeolithic Age, 118, 120 

 Palseoliths, 267 

 Pandarella, 34 

 Paradise Fly-catcher, 26 

 Pasdun Korale, 27 

 Passara, 14 

 Pataiaddimunai, 134 

 Patination, 118 



Pattipola, 122 



Paumben, 236, 248, 253 



Peaches, 42 



Pearl Banks (Ceylon), 88 



Pearl Banks, Scientific work on, 124- 



133 

 Pearl Fisheries Report in time of Dutch 



and British, 41 

 Pearl Production, 127 

 Pedru, 38 

 Peradeniya, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 31, 



103, 109, 111, 112, 149, 150 

 Periya Kaknunai, 135 

 Periya Paar, 239, 254 

 Periya Paar Kariya, 126, 254 

 Persian Gulf, 229, 242 

 Pheasant (Tank), 23 

 Philippine Islands, 88, 89 

 Phihppines, 229 

 Pigeon (Bronze- wing), 34 

 Pigeon (Green), 26 

 Pigeon (Indian Rock), 271 

 Pigeon (Orange-breasted Green), 25 

 Pigeons (Green), 34 

 Pigmies, 121, 122, 123 

 Pimento, 42 

 Pipits, 30, 34 

 Pitless Vipers, 269 

 Pit Vipers, 269 

 Placuna, 139 

 Poisonous Snakes of India and Ceylon, 



268 

 Pond Heron, 22 

 Porphyrio poliocephalus, 30 

 Purple Coot, 31 

 Puttalam, 39 



Quail, 25, 33 

 Quail (Blue-breasted), 

 Quaker Thrushes, 34 

 Quartz, 119 



23 



Rail (Ruddy), 23 



Rainbow (Lunar) at Sea, 44-45 



Rakwana, 39 



Ramboda, 9 



Rangoon, 245 



Ranna, 31 



Ratnapura, 7, 8, 9, 14, 27, 30 



Ratnapura District, 39 



Rattota, 9 



Red Ant (predatory), 142, 143 



Red Sea, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180 



Red-wattled Lapwing, 33 



Reed-warbler (Clamorous), 30, 31 



Reptiles, breeding habits of, 144-147 



Robin (Magpie), 29 



Robin (White-winged Black), 273 



Roller (Indian), 272 



Ruanwella, 9 



Ruddy Rail, 23 



Russia, 102 



Sallaimunai, 134 



Samoa, 85 



Sapota, 42 



Sawi Bay, 199 



Sembian-ar, 137 



Seychelles, 66, 91, 174, 177, 178 



