THE FIRST VOLUME. 



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Singhalese belief in the efficacy 



Piige 



Lizards. — Iguana . . . .182 

 Kabragoya, barbarous custom in pre- 

 paring the cobra-tel poison {/loie) 183 



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 The green calotes . . . .184 



Chameleon 184 



Ceratophora 185 



Geckoes, — their power of reproduc- 

 ing limbs .... 185, 186 



Crocodiles 186 



Their power of burying themselves 

 in the mud .'.... 187 

 Tortoises. — Curious parasite . . 188 

 Land tortoises . . . .189 



Edible turtle 190 



Huge Indian tortoises . {note) 190 

 Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode 

 of stripping it of the tortoise-shell 190 

 Serpents. — Venomous species rare . 191 

 Cobra de capello . . . .192 

 Instance of land snakes found at sea 193 

 Tame snakes . . . {note) 193 



Singular tradition regarding the 



cobra de capello . . .194 



UropeltidPE. — New species discover- 

 ed in Ceylon . . . .195 

 Buddhist veneration for the co- 

 bra de capello . . . 195 

 Anecdotes of snakes . . . 196 



The Python 196 



Water snakes .... 197 



Snake stones 197 



Analysis of one . . . .199 



Cascilia 201 



Large frogs 202 



Tree frogs 202 



List of Ceylon reptiles . . . 203 



CHAP. IV. 



FISHES. 



Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known . 205 

 Fish for table, seir fish . . . 205 

 Sardines, poisonous ? . . . . 206 



Sharks 207 



Saw-fish 207 



Fish of brilliant colours . . . 207 

 Curious fish described byyElian {note) 207 

 Fresh-water fish, little known, — not 



much eaten 208 



Fresh-water fish in Colombo Lake . 209 

 Immense profusion of fish in the 



rivers and lakes .... 209 

 Their re-appearance after rain . . 209 

 Mode of fishing in the ponds . . 210 



Showers offish 210 



Conjecture that the ova are preserved, 



not tenable 212 



Fish moving on drj' land . . , 213 



Instances in Guiana . {note) 214 



Perca Scandens, ascends trees .215 



Doubts as to the story of Daldorf . 217 



Fishes burying themselves during the 



dry season . . . . .218 

 The protopterus of the Gambia . 218 

 Instances in the fish of the Nile . 218 

 Instances in the fish of South Ame- 

 rica 219 



Living fish dug out of the ground 



in the dry tanks in Ceylon . 220 



Other animals that so bury them- 

 selves, Melaniae, Ampullaria;, &c. 220 



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