Chap. IX Reptiles
Lizards.—Iguana 271
Kabara-goya, barbarous custom in preparing the kabara-tel poison 272
Blood-suckers 275
The green calotes 276
The lyre-headed lizard 277
Chameleon 278
Ceratophora 279
Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs 281
Crocodiles 282
Their sensitiveness to tickling 285
Anecdotes of crocodiles 286
Their power of burying themselves in the mud 286
Tortoises.—Curious parasite 289 x
Terrapins 290
Edible turtle 291
Cruel mode of cutting it up alive 291
Huge Indian tortoises (note) 293
Hawk’s-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the tortoise-shell 293
Serpents.—Venomous species rare 294
Tic polonga and carawala 296
Cobra de capello 297
Tame snakes (note) 298
Anecdotes of the cobra de capello 298
Legends concerning it 299
Instance of land snakes found at sea 300
Singular tradition regarding the robra de capello 300
Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon 302
Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello 303
The Python 303
Tree snakes 305
Water snakes 306
Sea snakes 306
Snake stones 312
Analysis of one 315
Cæcilia 317
Frogs 317
Tree frogs 320
List of Ceylon reptiles 321