( 
Pedrotalagala, 30 
Peelers (stone implements), 98 
Pegu, 269 
Penguins going to breeding grounds, 
DRé 
Peradeniya, 17, 30, 56, 72, 75, 136 
Peregrine, 376. 
Peregrine Falcon, 373, 374 
Persia, 129, 137, 148 
Persia, Southern, 218, 365 
Petrels, 274. 
Pheasant, Common Crow, 267 
Pheasant (Crow), 260, 264 
Philippine Islands, 312 
Philippines, 42, 60, 167, 168, 212, 
299, 366 
Picarian Birds (Ceylon), 197 
Picks (stone implements), 99 
Piculets, 197 
Pied Crested Cuckoo, 249, 258 
Pied Harrier, 357, 360 
Pigeon, Jerdon’s Imperial, 288 
Pigmies, 107 
Pigmies, finest workmanship, 97 
Pigmies (Hill), 99 
** Pigmies ’’ (stone implements, Cey- 
lon), 90 
Pigmy factories, 92 
Pigmy makers, 92 
Pigmy times, conditions of, 92 
Pigmy tools, 91, 92 
Pintailed Snipe, 288, 291, 292, 296, 
297 
Pintailed Snipe, breeds in Northern 
Siberia, 290 
Pipits, 280 
Pitta (Indian), 290, 292 
Planes (stone implements), 90 
Plant Lice, Ceylonese, 70 
Plantain-eaters, 247 
Plateau beds, 113, 116 
Plateau beds (Ceylon), comparable | 
in age with the Paleolithic deposits 
of Europe, 121 
Plateau beds (Ceylon), old as the 
Pleistocene Ice Age of Europe, 120 
Plateau beds (Ceylon), upheaval of, 
12] 
Plateau beds, interpretation of, 118 
Plateau beds pervious to water, 112 
Plateau deposits, Ceylon, 107 
Plateau deposits, geology of, and 
their derivatives, 101 
Pleistocene, 82, 119, 121, 125 
Plover, American Golden, 279 
Plover, Eastern Golden, 293, 297 
Plover, Eastern Kentish, 296, 297 
Plover (Golden), 290 
Plover, Kentish, 287 
Plover, Large Sand, 297 
Plover, Lesser Sand, 297 
Plover, Little-ringed, 296, 297 
Plovers, 296 
Plovers (Sand), 297 
Plumbago plant, 55 
Pochard, Red-crested, 288 
Point Pedro, 106, 378 
Xili 

Points (stone implements), 90 
Pointsettia, Rapala schistacea found 
on, 68 
) 
Polgahawela, 17, 25, 28 
Polynesia, 197 
Pomegranate, Virachola  isocrates 
found on, 69 
Pomparippu, 96, 98, 108 
Pomparippu, Stone Age hand axe 
found near, 109 
Portuguese in Ceylon, 120 
Post-plateau deposits (Ceylon), 122 
Prehistoric antiquities, Ceylon, 86 
| Prehistoric epochs, close of, in Ceylon, 
123 
Prehistoric man, 96, 98 
Pre-paleolithic tools of England, 97 
Prismatic tools, 98 
Pundalu-oya, 4, 13, 14, 39, 41, 60, 
176, 186 
Pundaluoya (Upper), 144 
Punjab, Western, 231 
Pusa, 192 
Pussellawa, 43, 147 
Puttalam, 14, 53, 66, 136, 137, 
293, 321, 344, 408 
Puttalam District, 207, 257, 259, 
318, 340, 407 
Puttalam District, prehistoric work- 
manships in, 96 
Puttalam Game Sanctuary, 108, 110 
Puttalam, outcrops of gravel in, 108 
Pygmy Sperm Whale, 303 
Quacky Duck, 288 
Quartz, 104, 105, 106 
Quartz (Crystal), not affected by 
patination, 100 
Quartz (Crystal), oval pebbles of, 98 
Quartz (Crystal), pebbles of, 102 
Quartz (Crystalline), 90 
Quartz flakes, 103 
| Quartz flakes in Jaffna, 113 
Quartz flakes in Kalmunai, 113 
Quartz in Ceylon, 90 
Quartz (milky), 102 
Quartzite, 96 
Rails, seasonal movements of, 287 
Rakwana, Martin’s Town Estate, 323 
Ramboda, 187 
Rambukkana, 19 
Rangalla, 31 
Ranna, gravels in, 108 
Ranna, Marine Mollusea shells in, 
114 
Ranungahawa, 21 
Ratnapura, 2, 4, 10-15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 
28, 32, 33, 37, 38, 41, 46, 48, 49, 51, 
58, 59, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69, 128, 135, 
140, 144, 147, 149, 153, 158, 159, 
161, 162, 165, 168, 169, 174, 175, 
176, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 
187, 245, 336, 361 
Ratnapura District, 17, 265 
Red-backed Woodpecker, 199, 206 
Red-crested Pochard, 288 
Red earth man in Ceylon, 121 
Red-faced Malkoha, 261, 263 
Red Grouse, 286 
| Red-headed Merlin, 373, 378 
293 
297 
Red, Shank, 
Redshanks, 
