y of natural history, 3.
operation on a diseased elephant, 224.
Dawson, Captain, story of an elephant, 107.
Deafness frequent in elephants, 98.
Death's-head moth, 427.
Decoy elephants, 157.
_Decapoda brachyura_, 486.
_anomura_, 486.
_macrura_, 486.
Deer, 57.
meminna, 58.
Ceylon elk, 59.
milk-white, 59 _n_.
Demon-worship, anecdote of, 408.
Denham, error as to height of elephants, 99.
Devil-bird, 246. _See_ Owls.
Mr. Mitford's account of, 247 _n_.
Diard, M., sends home an elephant for dissection, 123 _n_.
Dicuil on the elephant, 103.
Diptera, 434.
Dogs, 33.
device of, to escape fleas, 433, 434.
dog-tax, 33.
republican instincts, 34.
disliked by elephants, 82, 84.
Donne, on the elephant, 105.
Doras, fish of Guiana, 347.
Dragon-flies, 411. _See_ Insects.
Dugong, 68, 69.
abundant at Manaar, 69.
origin of the fable of the mermaid, 69.
Dutch belief in the mermaid, 70.

Eagles, 245. _See_ Birds.
Edentata, 46, 74.
Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, his account of musk, 32 _n_.
Eels, 337, 347 _n_.
Eginhard, life of Charlemagne, 103.
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.
[Greek: Elephas], 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.
character of the rogues, 116, 147.
habits of the herd,