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. 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.