INDEX. 
Abou-zeyd, his account of fish on dry land, 
350 n. 
1 Abyssinia, fishes of, 352. 
\Acalephce, 398. See Radiata. 
< Acanthopterygii, 360. 
I Accipitres, 245. 
[Acherontia Sathanas, 427. 
I Adam's Peak, elephants on the summit, 
109. 
iEHan's account of the mermaid, 69. 
i — — his statement as to the export of ele- 
phants from Ceylon, 77 n., 209 n. 
error as to the shedding of the elephant's 
tusks, 79 n. 
— — describes elephants killing criminals 
with their knees, 87 ». 
- — error as to elephants' joints, 102. 
his account of Ceylon tortoises, 293. 
*— his account of the superiority of the 
elephants of Ceylon, 209 n. 
his description of the performances of 
the trained elephants at Rome, 237. 
his account of the sword-fish, 328. 
describes a Cheironectes, 331. 
African elephant, its peculiarities, 65. 
not inferior to the Indian in tractabi- 
lity, 208. 
Albino buffalo, 57. 
deer, 59. 
Albyrouni, on the pearl oyster, 375. 
Alee, described by Pliny and Cassar, 101 n. 
Alexandria, story of the dogs at, 34. 
Alligator, 283. See Crocodile. 
Almeida, Manoel de, on burying fishes, 
353 n. 
Amboina, mermaids at, 70. 
Ampullaria, its faculty of burying itself, 
355. 
Anabas, 354. 
j Daldorf's account of, doubted, 349, 
350. 
— — accidents from. 351 n. 
Angling bad in Ceylon, 335 «., 341. 
Annelida, leeches, 479- 
land-leech, its varieties, 482. 
Annelida, land leech, its teeth and eyes, 
480. 
— its tormenting bite, 482. 
list of, 485. 
Anseres, 260. 
Ansted, Prof., on the geology of Ceylon, 
61. 
his statement as to the height of Indian 
elephants, 100 n. 
Antiochus, elephants used by, 208. 
Antipater, the first to bring the Indian ele- 
phant to Europe, 207. 
Ant-lion, 411. See Insects. 
Ants, 420 See Insects. 
red, 420, 422. 
white, 412. See Termites. 
their faculty in discovering food, 421. 
Armandi's work on the use of elephants in 
war, 208 w. 
Aphaniptera, 433. 
Arachnidce, spiders, 464. 
— extraordinary webs, ib. 
Olios Taprobanius, 470. 
Mygalefasciata, 465. 
erroneously called " tarentula," ib. 
anecdote of, 466. 
— spiders, the Mygale, 465. 
birds killed by it, 468. 
Gaieodes, 470. 
ticks, their multitude, 471. 
mites, 472. 
Trombidium tinctorum, 472. 
. list of, 485. 
Argus cowrie, 369. 
Aripo, the sea-shore, 373. 
Aristotle, account of fishes migrating over- 
land, 344. 
sounds made by elephants, 97. 
his error as to the elephant's knees, 
101. 
Armitage, Mr., story of an elephant on his 
estate, 139. 
Articulata, list of, 485. 
Athenzeus, anecdotes of fishes on dry land, 
346. 
