...RICHARD MORGAN, acting Senior Puisne Judge ofthe Supreme Court at Colombo, I have received from his Interpreter,M...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Those which I kept at my house near Colombo were chiefly fedupon plantains and bananas, but for nothing did they evince agreater partiality than the rose-coloured flowers of the redhibiscus (H...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...On a newly planted coconuttope, at Hang-welle, within a few miles of Colombo, I haveheard of as many as twenty-seven being thus captured in a singlenight; but such success is rare...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...1705, says that in the districtround Colombo, where elephants are now never seen, they were thenso abundant, that 160 had been taken in a single corral...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
..."—From a paper on ElephantShooting in Ceylon, by Major MACREADY, late Military Secretaryat Colombo...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...This elephant is since dead; she grew infirm and diseased, anddied at Colombo in 1848...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Layard in dense jungle near Colombo and Avisavelle...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...In an officer's quarters in thefort of Colombo, a geckoe had been taught to come daily to thedinner-table, and always made its appearance along with thedessert...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...—Sharks appear on all parts of the coast,and instances continually occur of persons being seized by themwhilst bathing even in the harbours of Trincomalie and Colombo...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The fishes, it appears, were all captured at Colombo, and evenhad those from other parts of Ceylon been added, the geographicalarea would not have been very extended...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...It must be extremely interestingto know whether this circumstance is owing to accident, or to thelocal peculiarities of Colombo, or whether the fauna of Ceylonreally is deficient in such fishes...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The fish from which this drawing of the Cheironectes wasmade, was taken near Colombo, and from the peculiarities which itpresents it is in all probability a new and undescribed species...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...It is verycommon in the gardens about Colombo, and its size, and thetransparent talc-like spots in its wings, cannot fail to strikeeven the most careless saunterer...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The Portuguese had made the attempt previous to the arrival ofthe Dutch, and a strip of land on the banks of the Kalany rivernear Colombo, still bears the name of Orta Seda, the silk garden...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Those which I keptat my house near Colombo were chiefly fed upon plantains and bananas,but for nothing did they evince a greater partiality than therose-coloured flowers of the red hibiscus (H...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
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