Pea crabs, 479. 
  List of Ceylon Crustacea, 486. 
Ctesias’ error as to the elephant’s knee, 101. 
Cumming, Mr. Gordon, on the power of the elephant in overturning trees,
  218 n.
Cuppa-moy niya plant, its attraction for cats, 33 n. 
Cuvier, on the elephant, 133.
  on the structure of its tusks, 228.
  on the elephant’s age, 232.

Daldorf’s account of climbing fish, 350.
   his story doubted, 350. 
Darwin, burying-place of llamas and goats,
  236 n.
  on the coleoptera of Brazil, 405. 
Davy, Dr. John, describes the reptiles of
  Ceylon, 3.
  stimulates study 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