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قراءة كتاب Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
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  • Anecdotes of leopards 27
  • Their attraction by the smallpox 28
  • Native superstition 28
  • Encounter with a leopard 29
  • Monkeys killed by leopards 31
  • Alleged peculiarity of the claws 32
  • Palm-cat 32
  • Civet 32
  • Dogs 33
    • Cruel mode of destroying dogs33
    • Their republican instincts34
  • Jackal 34
    • Cunning, anecdotes of 35
    • The horn of the jackal 36
  • Mungoos 37
    • Its fights with serpents38
    • Theory of its antidote 40
  • Squirrels 41
    • Flying squirrel 41
  • Tree-rat 42
    • Story of a rat and a snake 43
  • Coffee-rat 43
  • Bandicoot 44
  • Porcupine 45
  • Pengolin 46
    • Its habits and gentleness 47
    • Its skeleton 48
  • Ruminantia.—The Gaur 49
    • Oxen 50
    • Humped cattle 51
    • Encounter of a cow and a leopard 51
    • Draft oxen 52
    • Their treatment 53
    • A Tavalam 53
    • Attempt to introduce the camel (note) 53
    • Buffaloes 54
    • Sporting buffaloes 55
    • Peculiar structure of the foot 56
  • Deer 57
  • Meminna 57
  • Elk 59
  • Wild-boar 59
  • Elephants 60
    • Recent discovery of a new species 60
    • Geological speculations as to the island of Ceylon 61
    • Ancient tradition

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