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the width of the forehead, at the 9th tooth nearly as wide as the 

 space between the eye and nostrils ; forehead nearly square. 



a. Young, stuffed. Length 26 inches. India. 



b. ? Young, stuffed. Length 30 inches. Muzzle rather more at- 

 tenuated. Singapore. 



In the College of Surgeons there is a skull of an animal almost 

 twice the size of a, which exactly agrees with it in proportions and 

 form. It differs from C. palustris in having a much wider, shorter, 

 and more triangular head. 



***** Hind feet without any fringe. 



Graves's Crocodile. Crocodilus planirostris, Graves, Ann. 

 Sci. Phys. ii. 348. Gray, Syn. Rept. 59. Crocodilus Gravesii, 

 Bory, Diet. Class. H. N. v. 109. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 101. 



Muzzle short, depressed ; dorsal plates furnished with recurved 

 points ; the hind feet webbed, but not toothed on the hinder edge. 



Inhab. ? 



****** Feet unknown. Skull with 2 central ridges , one behind the 



other. 



The Siamese Crocodile. Crocodilus Siamensis, Schn. Amp. 

 157. Gray, Syn. 6. C. galeatus, Cuv. Ann. Mus. x. 51, t. 1,/. 9. 

 Tiedem. Amph. 76, t. 11. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 113. Hist. Acad. 

 Sci. iii. 255, t. 64. Faujas, Mant. S. P. t. 43. Latr. Rept. i. t. 



Skull surmounted by two strong central triangular ridges, pla- 

 ced one before the other. 



Siam. Only known from a skull in Mus. Paris ? 



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