CONTENTS, 
CHAPTEE I. 
MAMMALIA. 
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Neglect of zoology in Ceylon . 3 
Labours of Dr. Davy . . ib. 
Followed by Dr. Templeton and 
others ..... 4 
Dr. Kelaart and Mr. E. L. Layard ib. 
Monkeys ..... 5 
The Rilawa, Macacus pileatus ib. 
Wanderoos .... ib. 
Knox's account of them . . ib. 
Error regarding the Silemcs 
Veter . . (note) 6 
Presbytes Cephalopterus . 7 
Fond of eating flowers . . ib. 
A white monkey ... 8 
Method of the flight of monkeys 9 
P. Ursinus in the Hills . . ib. 
P. Thersites in the Wanny . 10 
P. Priam us, Jaffna and Trinco- 
malie . . . ib. 
No dead monkey ever found . 1 ] 
Loris 12 
Bats 13 
Flying Fox, Pteropus Ed- 
war dsii , . . .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 . . ib. 
A tiny bat, Scotophilus foro- 
mandelicus . . .20 
Extraordinary parasite of the 
bat, the Nycteribia . . ib. 
Carnivora. — Bears . . .22 
Their ferocity . . .23 
Singhalese belief in the efficacy of 
charms . . (note) 24 
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Leopards . . . . .25 
Erroneously confounded with 
the Indian cheetah . . ib. 
Curious belief . . .26 
Anecdotes of leopards . .27 
Their attraction by the small- 
pox 28 
Native superstition . . ib. 
Encounter with a leopard . 29 
Monkeys killed by leopards . 31 
Alleged peculiarity of the claws 32 
Palm-cat .... ib. 
Civet . . . . . ib. 
Dogs 33 
Cruel mode of destroying dogs ib. 
Their republican instincts . 34 
Jackal . . . . , ib. 
Cunning, anecdotes of . .35 
The horn of the jackal . .36 
Mungoos . . . .37 
Its fights with serpents . . 38 
Theory of its antidote . . 40 
Squirrels . . . . .41 
Flying squirrel . . . ib. 
Tree-rat 42 
Story of a rat and a snake . 43 
Coffee-rat .... ib. 
Bandicoot . . . .44 
Porcupine . . . .45 
Pengolin 46 
Its habits ar gentleness . 47 
Its skeletor . . . .48 
Ruminantia. -The Gaur . . 49 
Oxen 50 
Humped cattle . . .51 
Encounter of a cow and a leo- 
pard . . . . ib. 
Draft oxen . . . .52 
Their treatment . . .53 
A Tavalam .... ib. 
