Bird-eating spiders, 468.

Birds' nests, edible, 248.
Blainville, De, on the age of the elephant,

232.

Blair, on the anatomy of the elephant, 123 s.
Bles, Marcellus, on the elephants of Cey-
lon, 113 n., 215 n.
Blood-suckers, 275.

Blyth, Mr., of Calcutta, his cultivation of
zoology, 4.

his revision of this work, Introd
Boa, 303. See Python.
Boar, wild, 59.

Bochart, 68.

his derivation of the word "elephant,"
76 n.

Bora-chung, a curious fish, 367.
Bosquez, Demas, account of a mermaid, 70.
Bowring, Sir John, on the fishes of Siam, 348.
Broderip, on the elephant, 122.
Browne, Sir Thomas, vulgar errors, 100, 105.
-error as to elephants' joints, 102.
Brun, Le, account of the elephants at
Colombo, 77 7.

Bruno or Braun, his account of the Guinea
worm, $97.

Buchanan, story of buffalo" rogues," 115 n.
Buffalo, 54. See Mammalia.

Columbidæ, 257.

Conchology. See Shells.

Cooroowe, elephant catchers, 181.

Corral for taking elephants, 156, 164. See
Elephant.

process of its construction, 170.

mode of conducting the capture, 156,
169.

Corse, Mr., account of elephants, 114.
Cosmas Indico- pleustes, his reference to
chanks at Marallo, 371.

Cotton-thief, 250. See Tchitrea.
Crabs, 477. See Crustacea.

Cripps, Mr., on sounds produced by ele-
phants, 98.

his story of an elephant which feigned
death, 135.

- his account of fishes after rain, 343.

Crocodile, 282. See Reptiles.

its sensibility to tickling, 285.

habit of the crocodile to bury itself in
the mud, 286.

its flesh eaten, 284 n.

their vitality, 288 n.

one killed at Batticaloa, 287.
Crows, 253. See Birds.
-anecdotes of, 254.

story of a crow and a dog, 255.
Cruelty to turtle, &c., 291.
Crustacea, calling crabs, 477.

Sand crabs (ocypode), 478.
Painted crabs, 478.
Paddling crabs, 478.
Hermit crabs, 478.
Pea crabs, 479.

List of Ceylon Crustacea, 486.

Ctesias' error as to the elephant's knee, 101.
Cumming, Mr. Gordon, on the power of the
elephant in overturning trees, 218 n.
Cuppa-may-niya plant, its attraction for
cats, 33 n.

Cuvier, on the elephant, 133.

on the structure of its tusks, 228.
on the elephant's age, 232.

Elephant, 64, 75.

Sumatran species, 64.

points of distinction, 65.

those of Ceylon extolled, 209.
elephants on Adam's Peak, 109.
numbers in Ceylon, 76.

- Eλças, derivation of the word, 76 n.
antiquity of the trade in, 77.
numbers diminishing, 77.
mode of poisoning, 77 n.
tusks and their uses, 78.

- disposition gentle, 81.
accidents from, 81.

- antipathy to other animals, 82; to the
horse, 83.

- jealousy of each other, 86.

mode of attacking man, 87.

anecdote of a tame elephant, 89.

· African elephant differs from that of
Ceylon, 64.

skin, 91.

white elephant, 92.

love of shade, 94.

water, not heat, essential to them, 94,
sight limited-smell acute, 95.

anatomy of the brain, 95.

power of smell, 96.

sounds uttered by, 96.

subject to deafness, 98.

exaggeration as to size, 98.

source of this mistake, 98 n.

stealthy motions, 100.

— error as to the elephant's want of joints,

100.

probable origin of this mistake, 106.

mode of lying down, 107.

ability to climb acclivities, 108.

mode of descending a mountain, 110.
a herd is a family, 111.
attachment to young, 112.

young suckled by all the females in a
herd, 113.

theory of this, according to White,
113 n.

a rogue, what, 114.

savage attacks of rogues, 116.

Elephants, character of the rogues, 116,

147.

habits of the herd, 117.

anecdote of, 118.

elephant's mode of drinking, 120.
their method of swimming, 121.
wells sunk by, 122.

receptacle in the stomach, 122,
stomach, anatomy of, 124.
food of the elephant, 129.
instinct in search of food, 130.
dread of fences, 131.

· their caution exaggerated, 152.
spirit of curiosity in elephants, 132.
anecdote of Col. Hardy, 132, 133.
sagacity in freedom over-estimated,

134.

leave the forests during thunder, 154.
cunning, feign death, 155.

stories of encounters with wild ele.
phants, 136.

sporting, numbers shot, 142.

butchery by expert shots, 142 n.

fatal spots in the head, 144, 145.

peculiar actions of elephants, 148.
love of retirement, 149.
elephant-trackers, 150.

herd charging, 151.

carcase useless, 153.

remarkable recovery from a wound,
154. See Lieut, Fretz.

mode of taking in India, 157-162.

height measured by the circumference

of the foot, 159.

— mode of shipping elephants at Manaar,
162.

-mode of shipping elephants at Galle, in

1701, 163 n.

——— keddah for taking elephants in Bengal,

164.

a corral (kraal) described, 165, 166,
derivation of the word corral, 165 n.
corral, its construction, 167, 172.
corral, driving in the elephants, 175.
the capture, 177.

mode of securing, 181.

the "cooroowe," or noosers, 181.

tame elephants, their conduct, 182,
191.

captives, their resistance and demea-

nour, 184.

dread of white rods, 186.

their contortions, 190.

a young one, 206.

conduct in captivity, 207.
mode of training, 211.

their employment in ancient warfare,
207.

- superiority of Ceylon, a fallacy, 900.

· elephant driver's crook (hendoo), 212.

- hairy elephants in Ceylon, 215 n.

Falkland Islands, peculiarity in the cattle
there, 372 n.

Fauna of Ceylon, not common to India,
Introd. 62.

peculiar and independent, Introd. 62.
have received insufficient attention, 3.
first study due to Dr. Davy, 3.
subsequent, due to Templeton, Layard,
and Kelaart, 3, 4.

Fishes of Ceylon, little known, 323.

seir fish, and others for table, 324.
abundance of perch, soles, and sar-
dines, 324.

explanation of Odoric's statement, 324 n.
sardines, said to be poisonous, $24.
shark, and sawfish, 325.

Fishes, similar mysterious re-appearances
elsewhere, 342 n.

method of taking them by hand, 340.
a fish decoy, 342.

fish falling from clouds, 342 n., 362.
buried alive in mud, 347.

Mr. Yarrell's theory controverted, 344.
travelling overland, 345.

the fact was known to the Greeks
and Romans, 345.

instances in Guiana and Siam, 347.
faculty of all migratory fish for disco-
vering water, 347 n.

on dry land in Ceylon, 348.
fish ascending trees, 349.

excerpt from letter by Mr.Morris, 348 n.
Anabas scandens, 349, 350.

Daldorf's statement, anticipated by
Abou-zeyd. 350 n.

accidents when fishing, 351 n.

burying fishes and travelling fish, 351.
occurrence of similar fish in Abys
sinia and elsewhere, 352.

statement of the patriarch Mendes,
553 n.

knowledge of habits of Melania em-
ployed judicially by E. L. Layard,
$55 n.

illustrations of æstivating fish and
animals, 356.

æstivating shell-fish and water-beetles.
351.

fish in hot water, 358.
list of Ceylon fishes, 359.

Professor Huxley's memorandum on
the fishes of Ceylon, 364.

Dr. Gray's memorandum, 366.
Note on the Bora-chung, S67.
Fishing, native mode of, 340.
Fish insect, 475.

Flamingoes, 261. See Birds.
Fleas, 433. See Insects.

Fleurens, on the duration of life in the ele
phant, 232.

Flies, their instinct in discovering carrion,

196 n.

mosquitoes, the plague of, 434.

Flowers, fondness of monkeys for, 7.
Flying Fox. Pteropus Edwardsii, 14. See
Mammalia.

its sizes, 14.
skeleton of, 15.

food, 16.

habits, 16.
numbers, 16.

strange attitudes, 17.
food and habits, 18.
- drinking toddy, 18.
Flying squirrels, 41.
Fresh-water fishes, 335.

Fretz, Lieut., his singular wound, 154.

Herodotus, antipathy of the elephant to the

camel, 83 n.

Herpestes, 38.

Herport, Albrecht, his work on India, 71 m.
Hesperida, 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 m.
Homoptera, 452, 463.

Honey-comb, great size of, 418.

Hooker, Dr. J. D., on the elephants of the
Himalaya, 110 n.

error as to white ants' nests, 413.

on ticks in Nepal, 471 m., 472.

Hora, 115. See Rogue.

Horace, alludes to a white elephant, 92 n.
Hornbill, Buceros, 242, 243.

Horse, alleged antipathy to the elephant,
83.