CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
MAMMALIA. 
Page 
Neglect of zoology in Ceylon . 3 
Labours of Dr. Davy 5 ib. 
Followed by Dr. TTernplettn and 
others . 4 
Dr. Kelaart and Mr. E. L. Layard wb. 
Monkeys . 5 
’ The Rilawa, Macacus pileatus ab. 
Wanderoos ‘ ib. 
Knox’s account of them . ib. 
Error regarding the Silenus 
Veter é (note) 6 
Presbytes Cephalopterus 7 
Fond of eating flowers . ab. 
A white monkey . 8 
Method of the flight of monkeys 9 
P. Ursinus in the Hills . 3 8b: 
P. Thersites in the Wanny . 10 
P. Priamus, Jaffna and Trinco- 
_ Inalie : . 0. 
No dead monkey ev ever found » 1 
Loris 12 
Bats . 13 
ne Fox, Pteropus Ea 
wardsii . . 14 
Their numbers at Peradenia 16 
« Singularity of their attitudes . 17 
.Food and mode of eating . 18 
Horse-shoe bat, Rhinolophus . 19 
Faculty of smell in bat . . tb. 
A tiny: bat, Scotophilus foro- 
mandelicue « 20 
‘Extraordinary Ls ed of the 
bat, the Nycteribia ab. 
Carnivora.—Bears’. 22 
‘Their-ferocity. 23 
Singhalése belief in the efficacy of 
charms a4 (note) 24 
Leopards . . 
Erroneously confounded with 
the Indian cheetah 
Curicus belief ‘ . 
Anecdotes of leopards 
Their attraction by the small- 
pox . 
Native superstition 
Encounter with a leopard 
Monkeys killed by leopards 
Alleged peculiarity of the claws 
Palm-cat . . . . 
Civet . . » « 
Dogs 
eind mode of destroying dogs 
Their republican instincts 
Jackal . . . 
Cunning, anecdotes of 5 . 
The horn of the jackal . 
Mungoos , ¥ 
Its fights with serpents . 
Theory of its antidote . 
Squirrels . . 
Flying squirrel. 
Tree-rat . i 
Story of a rat and a snake 
Coffee-rat i Fi 
Bandicoot 
Porcupine 
Pengolin . 
Its habits and gentleness 
Its skeleton . x 
Ruminantia.— The Gaur : 
Oxen . . 
Humped cattle 
Encounter of a cow and a leo- 
pard 
Draft oxen 
Their treatment - 
A Tavalam . 
