cond herd captured

Their treatment of a solitary elephant

A magnificent female elephant

Her extraordinary attitudes

Wonderful contortions

Taking the captives out of the corral

Their subsequent treatment and training

Grandeur of the scene

Story of young pet elephant

CHAP. VII.

THE ELEPHANT.

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_Conduct in Captivity_.

Alleged superiority of the Indian to the African elephant--not true

Ditto of Ceylon elephant to Indian

Process of training in Ceylon

Allowed to bathe

Difference of disposition

Sudden death of "broken heart"

First employment treading clay

Drawing a waggon

Dragging timber

Sagacity in labour

Mode of raising stones

Strength in throwing down trees exaggerated

Piling timber

Not uniform in habits of work

Lazy if not watched

Obedience to keeper from affection, not fear

Change of keeper--story of child

Ear for sounds and music

_Hurra! (note)_

Endurance of pain

Docility

Working elephants, delicate

Deaths in government stud

Diseases

Subject to tooth-ache

Question of the value of labour of an elephant

Food in captivity, and cost

Breed in captivity

Age

Theory of M. Fleurens

No dead elephants found

Sindbad's story

Passage from AElian

CHAP. VIII.

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
The cotton-thief
Bul-bul--tailor bird--and weaver
The mountain jay
Crows, anecdotes of

III. _Scansores_.--Parroquets

IV. _Columbidae_.--Pigeons

V. _Gallinae_.--Jungle-fowl

VI. _Grallae_.--Ibis, stork, &c.

VII. _Anseres_.--Flamingoes
Pelicans
Strange scene
Game--Partridges, &c.

List of Ceylon birds

List of birds peculiar to Ceylon

CHAP. IX.

REPTILES.

_Lizards_.--Iguana
Kabara-goya, barbarous custom in preparing the kabara-tel poison
Blood-suckers
The green calotes
The lyre-headed lizard
Chameleon
Ceratophora
Geckoes,--their power of reproducing limbs

Crocodiles
Their sensitiveness to tickling
Anecdotes of crocodiles
Their power of burying themselves in the mud

_Tortoises_.--Curious parasite
Terrapins
Edible turtle
Cruel mode of cutting it up alive
Huge Indian tortoises (_note_)
Hawk's-bill turtle