with their knees. 87 n.
  error as to elephants’ joints, 102.
  his account of Ceylon tortoises, 293.
  his account of the superiority of the elephants of Ceylon, 209 n.
  his description of the performances of the trained elephants at
    Rome, 237.
  his account of the sword-fish, 328.
  describes a Cheironectes, 331. 
African elephant, its peculiarities, 65.
  not inferior to the Indian in tractability, 208. 
Albino buffalo, 57.
  deer, 59. 
Albyrouni, on the pearl oyster, 375. 
Alce, described by Pliny and Caesar, 101 n. 
Alexandria, story of the dogs at, 34. 
Alligator, 283. See Crocodile. 
Almeida, Manoel de, on burying fishes, 353 n. 
Amboina, mermaids at, 70. 
Ampullaria, its faculty of burying itself, 355.
Anabas, 354. 
  Daldorf’s account of, doubted, 349, 350.
  accidents from, 351 n. 
Angling bad in Ceylon, 335 n., 341.
Annelidae, leeches, 479.
  land-leech, its varieties, 482.
  land-leech, its teeth and eyes, 480.
  its tormenting bite, 482.
  list of, 485. 
Anseres, 260. 
Ansted, Prof., on the geology of Ceylon, 61.
  his statement as to the height of Indian elephants, 100 n. 
Antiochus, elephants used by, 208. 
Antipater, the first to bring the Indian elephant to Europe, 207. 
Ant-lion, 411. See Insects. 
Ants, 420 See Insects.
  red, 420, 422.
  white, 412. See Termites.
  their faculty in discovering food, 421. 
Armandi’s work on the use of elephants in war, 208 n. 
Aphaniptera, 433.
Arachnidae, spiders, 464.
  extraordinary webs, ib.
  Olios Taprobanius, 470.
  Mygale fasciata, 465.
  erroneously called “tarentula,” ib.
  anecdote of, 466.
  spiders, the Mygale, 465.
  birds killed by it, 468. 
  Galeodes, 470.
  ticks, their multitude, 471.
  mites, 472.
  Trombidium tinctorum, 472.
  list of, 485. 
Argus cowrie, 369. 
Aripo, the sea-shore, 373. 
Aristotle, account of fishes migrating overland, 344.
  sounds made by elephants, 97.
  his error as to the elephant’s knees, 101. 
Armitage, Mr., story of an elephant on his estate, 139. 
Articulata, list of, 485. 
Athenaeus, anecdotes of fishes on dry land, 346. 
Avicula, 373. See Pearl Fishery. 
Avitchia, story of, 244. See Jackdaw. 
Ayeen Akbery, elephant stomach described in, 128.

Baker, Mr., his theory of the passion for sporting, 142 n.
  its accuracy questionable, 142 n. 
Badger, the Ceylon, 38. See Mongoos. 
Bandicoot rat, 44. 
Barbezieux, on the elephant, 104.
Batocera rubus, 406. 
Batrachia, 318. 
Bats, 13 See Mammalia and Cheiroptera.
  orange-coloured bats, 14.
  bats do not hybernate in Ceylon, 18.