Chap. III Reptiles
Lizards.—Iguana 182
Kabragoya, barbarous custom in preparing the cobra-tel poison (note) 183
The green calotes 184
Chameleon 184
Ceratophora 185
Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs 185, 186
Crocodiles 186
Their power of burying themselves in the mud 187
Tortoises—Curious parasite 188
Land tortoises 189
Edible turtle 190
Huge Indian tortoises (note) 190
Hawk’s-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the tortoise-shell 190
Serpents.—Venomous species rare 191
Cobra de capello 192
Instance of land snakes found at sea 193
Tame snakes (note) 193
Singular tradition regarding the cobra de capello 194
Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon 195
Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello 195
Anecdotes of snakes 196
The Python 196
Water snakes 197
Snake stones 197
Analysis of one 199
Cæcilia 201
Large frogs 202
Tree frogs 202
List of Ceylon reptiles 203