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INDEX. 
Frogs, S18. 
«= — tree frogs, 319, 320. 
Galle, elephants shipped in 1701, 163 n. 
Gallinse, 259. 
Galloperdix bicalcaratus, 259. 
Gallwey, Capt. P. P., great number of 
elephants shot by him, 142. 
Game birds, 265. 
Gardner, Dr., his account of the coffee 
bug, 436-441. 
Gaur, 49. See Mammalia. 
Knox's account of the gaur, 49. 
Geckoes, 281. 
Gemma Frisius, 68. 
Genette, 32. 
Geology of Ceylon, errors as to, 60. 
previous accounts, 61. 
traditions of ancient submersion, 61, 67. 
Ceylon has a fauna distinct from 
India, 62. 
" Golden Meadows" 211 n. See Massoude. 
Golunda rat, 43. 
Goondah, 114. See Rogue. 
Gooneratne, Mr., Introd. 
his story of the jackal, 35. 
Gordon Gumming, his butchery of ele- 
phants in Africa, 146 n. 
Gowra-ellia, 49. 
Gralte, 260. 
Gray, Dr. J. E., Brit. Mus., Introd. 
notice of Ceylon fishes, 366. 
Great fire- fish, 332. 
Guinea worm, 397. 
Gunther, Dr. A., on Ceylon reptiles, 275 n., 
304. 
Gwillim's Heraldry, error as to elephants, 
105 n. 
Hambangtotte, elephants of, 99. 
Hardy, Col., anecdote of, when chased by 
an elephant, 133. 
Hardy, Rev. Spence, describes a white 
monkey, 8. 
Haroun Alraschid, sends an elephant to 
Charlemagne, 103. 
Harrison, Dr., 95. 
his anatomy of the elephant, 123 126. 
his account of elephant's head, 142. 
of the elephant's ear, 223. 
Hastisilpe, a work on elephants, 87 91. 
Hawking, 246. 
Hawks. See Birds, 246. 
Hedge-hog, 46. 
Helix hsemastoma, its colouring, 372. 
Hemiptera, 433, 462. 
Hendoo, crook for driving elephants, 212. 
Herd, a, of elephants, is a family, 111. 
its mode of electing a leader, 117. 
Herodotus, on mosquitoes, 435. 
Herodotus, antipathy of the elephant to the 
camel, 83 n. 
Herpestes, 38. 
Herport, Albrecht, his work on India, 71 n. 
Hesperidce, 426. 
Hill, Sir John, error as to elephants, 98. 
Hippopotamus rogues, 115 n. 
Histiophorus, 330. See Sword-fish. 
Holland, Dr., his theory as to the forma- 
tion of tusks, 89 n. 
Holothuria, sea-slug and Trepang, 396. 
Home, Sir Everard, on the elephant's 
stomach, 124. 
— — error as to the elephant's ear, 223. 
Home, Randal, error as to elephant, 105 n. 
Homoptera, 432, 463 . 
Honey-comb, great size of, 418. 
Hooker, Dr. J. D., on the elephants of the 
Himalaya, 110 w. . 
error as to white ants' nests, 413. 
— on ticks in Nepal, 471 n., 472. 
Bora, 115. See Rogue. 
Horace, alludes to a white elephant, 92 n. 
Hornbill, Buceros, 242, 243. 
Horse, alleged antipathy to the elephant, 
83. 
to the camel, 83 n. 
story of, and an elephant, 89. 
horses taught to fight with elephants, 
84. 
Hotambeya, 40. See Mongoos. 
Hot-water fishes, 358. 
Hunt, mode of conducting an elephant- 
hunt, 157. 
Hunter, Dr. John, his theory of activation, 
356. 
Hurra! 223 n. 
Huxley, Prof., Introd. 
his memorandum on the fishes of 
Ceylon, 364. 
Hydrophobia in jackals, 36. 
Hymenoptera, 416. 
Ianthina, 370. 
Ichneumon, 39. See Mongoos. 
Iguana, 271. See Reptiles. 
Infusoria-, Red, in the Ceylon seas, 400. 
Insects of Ceylon, 403. 
their profusion and beauty, 403. 
hitherto imperfectly described, 404. 
coleoptera, 405. 
Beetles, scavengers, 405. 
coco-nut beetle, tortoise beetle, 407. 
tortoise beetle, 408. 
Orthoptera, 408. 
the soothsayer, leaf-insect, 410. 
Neuroptera, 411. 
dragon-flies, 411. 
ant-lion, 411. 
white ant, termites, 411. 
