[Footnote 1:  Cervus orizus, KELAART, Prod.  F. Zeyl., p. 83.]

[Footnote 2:  Presbytes ursinus, Blyth, and P. Thersites, Elliot.]

[Footnote 3:  Sorex montanus, S. ferrugineus, and Feroculus macropus.]

[Footnote 4:  Herpestes fulvescens, KELAART, Prod.  Faun.  Zeylan..  App. p. 42.]

[Footnote 5:  Sciurus Tennentii, Layard.]

[Footnote 6:  Sciuropterus Layardi, Kelaart.]

[Footnote 7:  There is a rat found only in the Cinnamon Gardens at Colombo, Mus Ceylonus, Kelaart; and a mouse which Dr. Kelaart discovered at Trincomalie, M. fulvidiventris, Blyth, both peculiar to Ceylon.  Dr. TEMPLETON has noticed a little shrew (Corsira purpurascens, Mag.  Nat.  Hist. 1855, p. 238) at Neuera-ellia, not as yet observed elsewhere.]

But the Ceylon Mammalia, besides wanting a number of minor animals found in the Indian peninsula, cannot boast such a ruminant as the majestic Gaur[1], which inhabits the great forests from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya; and, providentially, the island is equally free of the formidable tiger and the ferocious wolf of Hindustan.  The Hyena and Cheetah[2], common in Southern India, are unknown in Ceylon; and, though abundant in deer, the island possesses no example of the Antelope or the Gazelle.

[Footnote 1:  Bos cavifrons, Hodgs.; B. frontalis, Lamb.]

[Footnote 2:  Felis jubata, Schreb.]

Amongst the Birds of Ceylon, the same abnormity is apparent.  About thirty-eight species will be presently particularised[1], which, although some of them may hereafter be discovered to have a wider geographical range, are at present believed to be unknown in continental India.  I might further extend this enumeration, by including the Cheela eagle of Ceylon, which, although I have placed it in my list as identical with the Hematornis cheela of the Dekkan, is, I have since been assured, a different bird, and is most probably the Falco bido of Horsfield, known to us by specimens obtained from Java and Sumatra.

[Footnote 1:  See Chapter on the Birds of Ceylon.]

As to the Fishes of Ceylon, they are of course less distinct; and besides they have hitherto been very imperfectly compared.  But the Insects afford a remarkable confirmation of the view I have ventured to propound; so much so that Mr. Walker, by whom the elaborate lists appended to this work have been prepared, asserts that some of the families have a less affinity to the entomology of India than to that of Australia.[1]

[Footnote 1:  See Chapter on the Insects of Ceylon.]