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Birds (English), breeding grounds, | 
278 
Birds, evolution of new species, 295 
Birds, Frigate, 287 
Birds, height and speed during mi- 
gration, 281 
Birds in Ceylon, no migratory birds 
come for breeding season, 285 
Birds, Indian, trinomial classification 
Of ol? 
Birds, irregular migrants and strag- 
glers, 274 
Birds, long distances of migrations. 
280 
Birds, migration in Ceylon, 283 
Birds, migration of, 273 
Birds, migrations of, complexity of, 
273 
Birds (migratory), boisterous weather 
holds up and destroys many, 283 
Birds, mysterious power of direction 
in migration, 282 
Birds, nesting sites, 276 
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Birds, night flights ia migration, 281 _ 
Birds of Passage, 274 
Birds of Prey, 334 
Birds of Prey, Diurnal (Ceylon), 317 
Birds, orientation of, 282 
Birds, phenomena of bird migration, | 
275 
Birds, Picarian (Ceylon), 197 
Birds, route of migrants, 277 
Birds, Storm-driven Wanderers, 
Birds, supposed hibernating of, 
Birds, survival of the fittest, 
Birds, Tropic, 287 
Birds, Vagrant Oceanic Rovers, 
Birds who breed in Ceylon, 
species, 286 
Bittern (Black), 293 
Black-backed Woodpecker, 199, 207 
Black Bittern, 293 
Black-capped Kingfisher, 221, 226 
Black-crested Baza, 370 
Black Eagle, 341, 344 
Black-fronted Babbler, 257 
Black-legged Falconet, 380 
Black-winged Kite, 353, 355 
Black-winged Stilt, 296 
Blackwood Estate, 174 
Blades (stone implements), 90 
Blossom-headed Paroquet, 268 
Blown sand, 105, 113 
Blue-tailed Bee-eater, 217, 218, 292 
Blue-winged Paroquet, 271 
Bolivia, 279 
Bombay, 351 
Bone Needles, 91 
Bonellis Eagle, 340, 341 
Bonneville (lake), 117 
Boobies, 287 
Booted Eagle, 340, 342 
Booted Tree Warbler (Ceylon), 406 
Borers (stone implements), 90 
Borneo, 37, 56, 186, 257, 380 
Brahmaputra, 292 
Brahminy Duck, 288 
Brahminy Kite, 352, 353, 362 
Brain-fever Bird (Common Hawk 
Cuckoo), 253 
274 
275 
277 
274 
240 
) 
Brazil, 279 
British in Ceylon, 121 
British Museum, 32, 38, 47, 305 
Broad-billed Roller, 214, 215 
Brown Chert, 95 
Brown Fish Owl, 326, 327 
Brown Hawk Owl, 319, 326, 333 
Brown-headed Stork-billed King 
fisher, 225 
Brown-necked Spinetail, 236 
Brown Wood Owl, 319, 323, 324 
Buboninez, Ceylon, 326 
Bug, Mealy, 37 
Bulbul (Bush), 258 
Bulbul, Common Bush, 256 
Bulbul, Southern Red-whiskered, 255 
Burma, 4, 5, 6,9, 18,19, 21, 22, 26, 33, 
34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 55, 58, 
62, 65, 66, 68, 76, 126, 129, 134, 
140, 148, 152, 161, 164, 165, 166, 
167, 169, 170, 182, 183, 186, 200, 
218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 227, 231, 
236, 238, 241, 243, 256, 259, 261, 
265, 266, 325, 343, 352, 356, 357, 
362, 365, 366, 371, 375, 377 
| Burma Miocene, 409 

Burma, Upper, 258 
Bush Bulbul, 258 
Buttala, 135 
Butterflies, Ceylon, 2, 126 
Butterflies (Ceylon), notes on, 1, 3 
| Butterflies, common, of the plains 
of India, 3 
Batterflies, disappearance 
certain localities, 411 
from 
| Butterflies, Fauna of India, 1 
Butterflies (Indian), a list of, 1 
Butterflies of Ceylon, notes on, 3 
Butterflies of India, Burma, and 
Ceylon, 1 
Buzzard (Common), 363 
Buzzard, Crested Honey, 368 
| Buzzards, 339, 362 
Buzzards (Honey), 339, 368 
_ Cachar, Northern, 328 
Caller Crabs, why so named, 307 
Caller or Fiddler Crabs, 306 
Canaries, 30 
Cape Colony, 276 
Cape Comorin, 121, 291, 292, 293 
| Cape Hatteras, 282 
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‘* Captain Philpot’s, 
Cuckoo, 252 
> Cry of Indian 
| Cardamom, Lampides elpis pest in, 50 
Carribean, 279 
| Cashmere, 289, 292 
_ Catachrysops, key to the genusof, 52 
Celebes, 224 
Celtic Folklore, 88 
Central Province, 61, 67, 68 
Ceylon, 391 
Ceylon an ancient land, 114 
Ceylon Aphidide, 70 
Ceylon Aphnzus, 61 
Ceylon Bay Owl, 319, 322 
Ceylon birds, 40 peculiar species, 286 
Ceylon, birds who breed in, 240 
species, 286 
Ceylon, Booted Tree Warbler, 406 
