n.
  mosquitoes, the plague of, 434. 
Flowers, fondness of monkeys for, 7. 
Flying Fox. Pteropus Edwardsii, 14. See Mammalia.
  its sizes, 14.
  skeleton of, 15.
  food, 16.
  habits, 16.
  numbers, 16.
  strange attitudes, 17.
  food and habits, 18.
  drinking toddy, 18. 
Flying squirrels, 41. 
Fresh-water fishes, 335. 
Fretz, Lieut., his singular wound, 154. 
Frogs, 318.
  tree frogs, 319, 320.

Galle, elephants shipped in 1701, 163 n. 
Gallinae, 259. 
Galloperdix bicalcaratus, 259. 
Gallwey, Capt.  P.P., great number of elephants shot by him, 142. 
Game birds, 265. 
Gardner, Dr., his account of the coffee bug, 436-441. 
Gaur, 49 See Mammalia. 
  Knox’s account of the gaur, 49. 
Geckoes, 281. 
Gemma Frisius, 68. 
Genette, 32. 
Geology of Ceylon, errors as to, 60.
  previous accounts, 61.
  traditions of ancient submersion, 61, 67. 
  Ceylon has a fauna distinct from India, 62. 
“Golden Meadows,” 211 n. See Massoude. 
Golunda rat, 43.
Goondah, 114. See Rogue. 
Gooneratne, Mr., Introd.
  his story of the jackal, 35. 
Gordon Cumming, his butchery of elephants in Africa, 146 n. 
Gowra-ellia, 49. 
Grallae, 260. 
Gray, Dr. J.E., Brit.  Mus., Introd.
  notice of Ceylon fishes, 366. 
Great fire-fish, 332. 
Guinea worm, 397. 
Guenther, Dr. A., on Ceylon reptiles, 275 n., 304. 
Gwillim’s Heraldry, error as to elephants, 105 n.

Hambangtotte, elephants of, 99. 
Hardy, Col, anecdote of, when chased by an elephant, 133. 
Hardy, Rev. Spence, describes a white monkey, 8. 
Haroun Alraschid, sends an elephant to Charlemagne, 103. 
Harrison, Dr., 95.
  his anatomy of the elephant, 123 n., 126.
  his account of elephant’s head, 142.
  of the elephant’s ear, 223. 
Hastisilpe, a work on elephants, 87 n., 91. 
Hawking, 246. 
Hawks. See Birds, 246. 
Hedge-hog, 46. 
Helix haemastoma, its colouring, 372. 
Hemiptera, 433, 462. 
Hendoo, crook for driving elephants, 212. 
Herd, a, of elephants, is a family, 111.
  its mode of electing a leader, 117. 
Herodotus, on mosquitoes, 435.
  antipathy of the elephant to the camel, 83 n. 
Herpestes, 38. 
Herport, Albrecht, his work on India, 71 n.
Hesperidae, 426. 
Hill, Sir John, error as to elephants, 98. 
Hippopotamus rogues, 115 n. 
Histiophorus, 330. See Sword-fish. 
Holland, Dr., his theory as to the formation of tusks, 89 n.
Holothurin, sea-slug and Trepang, 396. 
Home, Sir Everard, on the elephant’s stomach, 124.
  error as to the elephant’s ear, 223. 
Home, Randal, error as to elephant, 105 n. 
Homoptera, 462, 463. 
Honey-comb, great size of, 418.