Chap. I.] ZOOLOGY OF CEYLON AND INDIA. 63 
and an orange-coloured ichneumon l 3 before unknown. 
There are also two squirrels 2 that have not as yet 
been discovered elsewhere, (one of them belonging to 
those equipped with a parachute 3 ,) as well as some local 
varieties of the palm squirrel (Sciurus penicillatus. 
Leach).' 1 
But the Ceylon Mammalia, besides wanting a number 
of minor animals found in the Indian peninsula, cannot 
boast such a ruminant as the majestic Graur 5 , 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 6 , 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 7 , 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 
1 Herpestes fulvescens, Kela- Ceylon. Dr. Templeton has no- 
art, Prod Faun.Zeylan., App.p.42. ticed a little shrew (Corsira pur- 
2 Sciurus Terinentii, Layard. purascens, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1855, 
3 Sciuropterus Layardi, Kelaart. p. 238) at Neuera-ellia, not as yet 
4 There is a rat found only in the observed elsewhere. 
Cinnamon Gardens at Colombo, 5 Bos cavifrons, Hodgs. ; B. fron- 
Mus Ceylonus, Kelaart; and a talis, Lamb. 
mouse which Dr. Kelaart disco- 6 Felis jubata, Schreh. 
vered at Trincomalie, M. fulvidi- 7 See Chapter on the Birds of 
ventris, Blyth, both peculiar to Ceylon. 
