...NIETNER, of Colombo, I am likewise indebted for manyparticulars regarding Singhalese Entomology, a department to whichhis attention has been given, with equal earnestness andsuccess...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...A white monkey, taken between Ambepusse and Kornegalle, wherethey are said to be numerous, was brought to me to Colombo...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Aspecimen of the former was sent to me from Chilaw, on the westerncoast, and lived for some time at Colombo, feeding on rice, fruit,and vegetables...
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」
...Iafterwards brought the skull of the animal to Colombo, and it isstill to be seen at the house of Mr...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The Colombo Observer for March 1858, contains an offer ofa reward of twenty-five guineas for the destruction of an elephantwhich infested the Rajawallé coffee plantation, in thevicinity of Kandy...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Another which I watched in the garden atElie House, near Colombo, surprised me by the ease with which iterected itself almost perpendicularly in order to scale a wallupwards of ten feet high...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Templeton, near Colombo...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...From thestill water of the lake, close to the walls of Colombo, there weretwo species of Eleotris, one Silurus with barbels,and two Malacopterygians, which appear to beBagri...
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」
...The fishermen assert that a fish about five inches in length,found in the lake at Colombo, and called by them "magoora,"makes a grunt when disturbed under water...
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」
...Templeton of Colombo that the only specimens therewere imported...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...I had the good fortune to beassociated with Captain Brewis on the passage from Colombo toAlexandria on board the —— and his friendship is a pleasant memory...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
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