APPENDIX. _ cxix 



By Sir Robert D. CoLQUHOUN. — (Continued.) 

 The skin of the water-hen. 



The skin of the toucan (HornbiU, Bwceros Hydrocorax ?) from the Kumaon Hills. 

 Cones of the edible pine. 

 A Bujali, or Nipalese knife. 

 Specimens of serpentine. 

 The skin of a musk deer. 



Ninety-two skins of birds from the Malayan Peninsula. 

 Ten skins of animals from the Malayan Peninsula. 

 Several specimens of Lepidopterse and Coleopterae from the Malayan Peninsula. 



By Sir Alexander Johnston, Knt. F.R.S. V.P.R.A.S. &c Jwneie, 1827. 



A specimen of the double sea cocoa-nut. 



Three brass images of Buddha, sitting, standing, and reclining, executed by a 



Buddhist piest in Ceylon, according to the rules laid down in the sacred books of 



the Singhalese Buddhists. 

 Three Singhalese images in wood, painted ; models of native costume. 

 A musket, formerly the property of the late King of Kandy. It was manufactured 



by native artists from an European model : the barrel is richly plated with silver 



chased in flowers; the lock elaborately inlaid with silver, and the stock is cased 



with tortoiseshell. 

 A specimen of bleached myrtle wax. 

 Two hundred and fifty-five specimens of the various timber woods produced in 



Ceylon. 

 A large fragment of petrified tamarind-wood found at Trevacarre, on the Coro- 



mandel coast. 

 Specimens of the following pigments, &c. used in Ceylon : 



1. Goeroegale, a red paint found in Galle. 



2. Charcoal, from the shell of the cocoa-nut. 



3. SoodoemaMoe, white earth, used as paint. 



4. Makoeloegale, white paint, found in Himmety Galle. 



5. Cattammakl^ooloe, earth used as yellow paint. 



6. GooketooUry, milk of the tree so called, used as yellow paint. 



7. Arveriye tree, a blue paint made from the leaves of this tree. 



8. Goorgal, earth used as red paint. 



9. Callooandom, an extract from dammer, used as black paint. 



10. Katamatty, yellow paint. 



11. Cadjoolaloo, gum used to mix paints with. 



12. Joolatoo, ditto, ditto. 



Specimens of the articles used in lacquering; also a piece of wood partly lacquered. 

 Specimen of sappan-wootl, used in dyeing cloth. 



of coral from the south-west coast of Ceylon. 



of Erremudoe Galle, a. leaf. 



