Singhalese belief in the efficacy of charms (note) Leopards Curious belief Anecdotes of leopards Palm-cat Civet Dogs Jackal The horn of the jackal Mungoos Its fights with serpents Theory of its antidote Squirrels Flying squirrel Tree rat Story of a rat and a snake Coffee rat Bandicoot Porcupine Pengolin _Ruminantia_.--The Gaur Oxen Humped cattle Encounter of a cow and a leopard Buffaloes Sporting buffaloes Peculiar structure of the hoof Deer Meminna Elephants Whales General view of the mammalia of Ceylon List of Ceylon mammalia Curious parasite of the bat (note) CHAP. II. BIRDS. Their numbers Songsters Hornbills, the "bird with two heads" Pea fowl Sea birds, their number I. _Accipitres_.--Eagles Falcons and hawks Owls--the devil bird II. _Passeres_.--Swallows Kingfishers--sunbirds Bul-bul--tailor bird--and weaver Crows, anecdotes of III. _Scansores_.--Parroquets IV. _Columbiæ_.--Pigeons V. _Gallinæ_.--Jungle-fowl VI. _Grallæ_.--Ibis, stork, &c. VII. _Anseres_.--Flamingoes Pelicans Game.--Partridges, &c.176 List of Ceylon birds List of birds peculiar to Ceylon CHAP. III. REPTILES. Lizards.--Iguana Kabragoya, barbarous custom in preparing the cobra-tel poison (note) The green calotes Chameleon Ceratophora Geckoes,--their power of reproducing limbs 185, Crocodiles Their power of burying themselves in the mud Tortoises--Curious parasite Land tortoises Edible turtle Huge Indian tortoises (note) Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the tortoise-shell Serpents.--Venomous species rare Cobra de capello Instance of land snakes found at sea Tame snakes (note) Singular tradition regarding the cobra de capello Uropeltidæ.--New species discovered in Ceylon Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello Anecdotes of snakes The Python Water snakes Snake stones Analysis of one Cæcilia Large frogs Tree frogs List of Ceylon reptiles CHAP. IV. FISHES.