CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER 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 Silenus 



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. Priamus, Jaffna and Trinco- 



malie .... ib. 



No dead monkey ever found . 1 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, Rhinoloplius . 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. 



Curit us 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 and gentleness 



47 



Its skeleton . 



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. 



