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The green calotes . .276 
The lyre-headed lizard . .277 
Chameleon .... 278 
Ceratophora . . . .279 
Geckoes, — their power of re- 
producing limbs . .281 
Crocodiles . . . .282 
Their sensitiveness to tickling 285 
Anecdotes of crocodiles . . 286 
Their power of burying them- 
selves in the mud . . ib. 
Tortoises. — Curious parasite . 289 
Terrapins .... 290 
Edible turtle . . .291 
Cruel mode of cutting it up 
alive .... ib. 
Huge Indian tortoises (note) 293 
Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous 
mode of stripping it of the° 
tortoise-shell . . . ib. 
Serpents. — Venomous species rare 294 
Tic polonga and carawala . 296 
Cobra de capello . . .297 
Tame snakes . (note) 298 
Anecdotes of the cobra de ca- 
pello . . . 298, 305 
Legends concerning it . . 299 
Instance of land snakes found 
at sea . . . 300 
Singular tradition regarding 
the cobra de capello . . ib. 
Uropeltidae. — New species dis- 
covered in Ceylon . . 302 
Buddhist veneration for the 
cobra de capello . . 303 
The Python . . . ib. 
Tree snakes . . . 305 
Water snakes . . .306 
Sea snakes .... ib. 
Snake stones . . .312 
Analysis of one . . .315 
Cecilia ... .317 
Frogs . . . . ib. 
Tree frogs . . . .320 
List of Ceylon reptiles . .321 
CHAP. X. 
FISHES. 
Ichthyology of Ceylon, little 
known .... 323 
Fish for table, seir fish . .324 
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Sardines, poisonous? . . 324 
Sharks 325 
Saw-fish . . . . ib. 
Fish of brilliant colours . .326 
The ray . . . . ib. 
The sword-fish . . .328 
Curious fish described by iElian 330 
Salarias alticus . . .332 
Beautifully coloured fishes . , ib. 
Fresh-water fish, little known, — 
not much eaten . . .335 
Fresh -water fish in Colombo Lake 336 
Perches . . . . ib. 
Eels 337 
Immense profusion of fish in the 
rivers and lakes . . .339 
Their re- appearance after rain . 340 
Mode of fishing in the ponds . ib. 
Showers of fish . . .341 
Conjecture that the ova are pre- 
served, not tenable . . 342 
Fish moving on dry land . . 344 
Ancient authorities, Greek and 
Eoman .... 345 
Aristotle and Theophrastus . 346 
Athenteus and Polybius . . ib. 
Livy, Pomponius, Mela, and 
Juvenal .... ib. 
Seneca and Pliny . . . ib. 
Georgius Agricola, Gesner, &c. 347 
Instances in Guiana (note) ib. 
Perca Scandens, ascends trees 348 
Doubts as to the story of 
Daldorf .... 350 
Fishes burying themselves during 
the dry season . . .351 
The protojpterus of the Gambia 352 
Instances in the fish of the 
Nile .... ib. 
Instances in the fish of South 
America .... 353 
Living fish dug out of the 
ground in the dry tanks in 
Ceylon .... 354 
Molluscs that bury themselves 355 
The animals that so bury them- 
selves in India . . . 357 
Analogous case of . . 358 
Theory of estivation and 
hybernation . . . ib. 
Fish in hot water in Ceylon . ib. 
I List of Ceylon fishes . • 359 
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