Note 1 — CHAP. III.
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: Mr. Bennett, who resided much in the south-east of the island, ascribes the rarity of serpents in the jungle to the abundance of the wild peafowl, whose partiality to snakes renders them the chief destroyers of these reptiles.
2: See DAVY'S Ceylon, ch. xiv.
3: Dabois elegans, Grey.
4: Naja tripadians, Gunther.
5: Trigonocephalus hypnale, Wegl.