THE many interesting papers on Ceylonese birds published during the last few years by Capt. Legge in the Ibis and in the Indian journal Stray Feathers, will have prepared his readers for an excellent ...
THE lovely island of Ceylon, which had been a British Crown Colony since 1798, could have become completely independent in 1948 if its political class had so decided. In the vast, comprehensive ...
For 2,000 years the Lion flag of Kandy waved defiantly over the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon. Under it the Sinhalese Buddhist kings struggled and connived with invading princes and rival island ...
In 1829 the Crown Colony of Ceylon was visited by two distinguished civil servants. Tasked by the British government to investigate the state of the colony and the future of its administration, they ...
THE ornithologists are certainly active at the present time. We have just recorded the commencement of an important work on the Birds of New Guinea, we have now to notice the conclusion of an ...
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