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Title: Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. : including a monograph of the elephant and a description of the modes of capturing and training it with engravings from original drawings
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Zoology Elephants
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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with which he has devotedhis attention and leisure to the identification of thespecimens forwarded from Ceylon, and to their descrip-tion in the Calcutta Journal. To him, and to the gen-tlemen I have named, we are mainly indebted for what-ever accurate knowledge we now possess of the zoologyof the colony. The mammalia, birds, and reptiles received their firstscientific description in an able work published in 1852by Dr. Kelaart of the army medical staff 2, which is byfar the most valuable that has yet appeared on theSinghalese fauna. Co-operating with him, Mr. Layardhas supplied a fund of information especially in ornitho-logy and conchology. The zoophytes and Crustaceahave I believe been partially investigated by ProfessorHarvey, who visited Ceylon in 1852, and more re- Joxi.rn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. of Ceylon, by F. Kelaart, Esq., • XV. p. 280, 314. M.D., F.L. S., &c. &c. 2 vols. * Frodromvs Faunce Zeylaniccs; Colombo and London, 1852.being Contributions to the Zoology
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CEYl.uN MOiNKl-VS, 1. Prcsbytcs cepkaluplaus.-. /■. Tlursiles. 7,. r. /•,/,(»(MS. 1. .Vlrncu.-i j/ilcUuf Chap. I.) MOXKEYS. 5 cently by Professor Sctimarda, of the University ofPrague. From the united labours of these gentlemenand others interested in the same pursuits, we mayhope at an early day to obtain such a knowledge of thezoology of Ceylon as will to some extent compensatefor the long indifference of the government officers. I. QuADKUMANA. 1. Moukeys.—To a stranger in thetropics, among the most attractive creatures in theforests are the troops of monkeys that career in cease-less chase among the loftiest trees. In Ceylon thereare five species, four of which belong to one group, theWanderoos, and the other is the little graceful grimacingrilawa ^ which is the universal pet and favourite ofboth natives and Europeans. The Tamil conjurors teachit to dance, and in their wanderings carry it from villageto village, clad in a grotesque dress, to exhibit its livelyperformances. I

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