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. _Columbiae_.--Pigeons
V. _Gallinae_.--Jungle-fowl
VI. _Grallae_.--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
Uropeltidae.--New species discovered in Ceylon
Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello
Anecdotes of snakes
The Python
Water snakes
Snake stones
Analysis of one
Caecilia
Large frogs
Tree frogs
List of Ceylon reptiles

CHAP. IV.

FISHES.

Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known
Fish for table, seir fish
Sardines, poisonous?
Sharks
Saw-fish
Fish of brilliant colours
Curious fish described by AElian (note)
Fresh-water fish, little known,--not much eaten
Fresh-water fish in Colombo Lake
Immense profusion of fish in the rivers and lakes
Their re-appearance after rain
Mode of fishing in the ponds
Showers of fish
Conjecture that the ova are preserved, not tenable
Fish moving on dry land
Instances in Guiana (note)
Perca Scandens, ascends trees
Doubts as to the story of Daldorf
Fishes burying themselves during the dry season
The _protopterus_ of the Gambia
Instances in the fish of the Nile
Instances in the fish of South America
Living fish dug out of the ground in the dry tanks in Ceylon
Other animals that so bury themselves, Melaniae, Ampullariae, &c.
The animals that so bury themselves in India (note)
Analogous case of (note)
Theory of aestivation and hybernation
Fish in hot-water in Ceylon
List of Ceylon fishes
Instances of fishes failing from the clouds
Overland migration of fishes known to the Greeks and Romans
Note on Ceylon fish