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and an orange-coloured ichneumon!, before unknown. 
There are also two squirrels? that have not as yet 
been discovered elsewhere, (one of them belonging to 
those equipped with a parachute’,) as well as some local 
varieties of the palm squirrel (Sciurus penicillatus, 
Leach).4 
But the Ceylon Mammalia, besides wanting a number 
of minor animals found in the Indian peninsula, cannot 
boast such a ruminant as the majestic Gaur’, which 
inhabits the great forests from Cape Comorin to the 
Himalaya ; and, providentially, the island is equally free 
of the formidable tiger and the ferocious wolf of Hin-~ 
dustan. The Hyena and Cheetah®, common in Southern 
India, are unknown in Ceylon; and though abundant 
in deer, the island possesses no example of the Antelope 
or the Gazelle. 
Amongst the Birds of Ceylon, the same abnormity is 
apparent. About thirty-eight species will be presently 
particularised’, which, although some of them may here- 
after be discovered to have a wider geographical range, 
are at present believed to be unknown in continental 
India. I might further extend this enumeration, by in- 
cluding the Cheela eagle of Ceylon, which, although I 
have placed it in my list as identical with the Hematornis 
cheela of the Dekkan, is, I have since been assured, a 
different bird, and is most probably the Falco bido of 
’ Herpestes fulvescens, Keria- Ceylon. Dr. Temereron has no- 
art, Prod. Faun. Zeylan., App.p.42. ticed a little shrew (Corsira pur- 
2 Sciurus Tennentii, Layard. purascens, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1856, 
8 Sciuropterus Layardi, Kelaart. p. 238) at Neuera-ellia, not as yet 
+ There is a rat found only in the observed elsewhere, 
Cinnamon Gardens at Colombo, 5 Bos cavifrons, Hodgs. ; B, fron- 
Mus Ceylonus, Keaart; and a talis, Lamb. 
mouse which Dr. Kelaart disco- 5 Felis jubata, Schred. 
vered at Trincomalie, M. fulvidi- 7 See Chapter on the Birds of 
ventris, Blyth, both peculiar to Ceylon. 
