Class REPTILIA 



Order LORICATA 

 Family CROCODYLIDAE 



Genus CROCODYLUS Laurenti 



CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS Laurenti 



Crocodylus rdlolicus Laurenti, 1768, Syn. Rept. p. 53. part. (Type locality, 



"Habitat in India orientali, et Aegypto.") 

 Crocodilus niloticus Boulenger, 1889, Cat. Chelon. Brit. Mus., p. 283. — Stejneqer, 



1893, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, p. 713. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 20071) Tana River, K. C. (Chanler) 1892. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 42149-50) Rhino Camp, L. E. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1910. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 63592) Nairobi, K. C. (Raven) 1920. 



The Tana River specimen was taken between Hemeye and the 

 coast. No. 42150 consists of only the bones of the leg. 



He [Kermit] also shot a 12-foot crocodile. The ugly, formidable brute had in 

 its belly sticks, stones, the claws of a cheetah, the hoofs of an impalla, and the 

 big bones of an eland, together with the shell plates of one of the large river 

 turtles; evidently it took toll indifferently from among its fellow denizens of the 

 river and from among the creatures that came to drink, whether beasts of pas- 

 ture or the flesh eaters that preyed upon them. (Roosevelt, writing from the 

 Guaso Nyiro, pp. 286-287.) 



After leaving this camp we journeyed up the Guaso Nyero for several days. 

 The current was rapid and muddy and there were beds of reeds and of the tall, 

 graceful papyrus. * * * Whenever on our hunts v/e had to cross it, we 

 shouted and splashed and even fired shots, to scare the crocodiles. I shot one 

 on a sandbar in the river. (Roosevelt, p. 311.) 



Kermit also killed a monitor lizard, and a crocodile 10 feet long; it was a fe- 

 male, and contained 52 eggs, which, when scrambled, we ate and found good. 

 (Roosevelt, writing from the Lado Enclave, p. 417.) 



At the foot of a steep bluff, several yards from the water, a crocodile lay. 

 I broke its neck with a soft-nosed bullet from the little Springfield, for the plated 

 skin of a crocodile offers no resistance to a modern rifle. We dragged the ugly 

 man-eater up the bank and sent one of the porters back to camp to bring out 

 enough men to carry the brute in bodily. It was a female containing 30 eggs. 

 We did not find any crocodile's nest, but near camp, in digging a hole for the 

 disposal of refuse, we came on a clutch of a dozen eggs of the monitor lizard. 

 (Roosevelt, writing from the Lado Enclave, p. 418.) 



In a shallow bay v.'e came upon two hippo cows with their calves and a dozen 

 crocodiles. I shot one of the latter — as I alwaj's do, when I get a chance — and 

 it turned over and over, lashing with its tail as it sank. (Roosevelt, writing from 

 the Lado Enclave, p. 433.) 



Kermit also shot a 12-foot crocodile in which he found the remains of a heron. 

 (Roosevelt, writing from the Lado Enclave, p. 434.) 



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