4 CEOCODILIDiE. 



davk brown ; tail, and sometimes also back, with dark transverse 

 bands ; white beneath ; iris yellowish brown. 



Total length 4^ metres (17 feet). 



Borneo, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula. 



The Malay Gharial was first discovered in the Malay Peninsula, 

 by Mr. Cecil Wray, on the Perak Eiver, in 1889. A second 

 specimen was caught in the Kinta River, Jiear Batu Gajah, by 

 Capt. H. C. Metcalfe, in 1893 or 1894. Others have since been 

 observed in the States of Perak and Selangor, on the West coast, 

 and of Pahaug, on the East coast of the Peninsula. Skulls were 

 observed by Dr. Annandale in a shrine in Patelung, one of the 

 Eastern Siamese Malay States. A specimen from Pulau Tiga, 

 Perak Eiver, sent by Mr. L. Wi'ay to the British Museum, 

 measures 2'64 metres. 



This is an essentially freshwater animal, and it is said by the 

 natives to often frequent the swamps and marshy lands on the 

 banks of rivers. It feeds principa-lly on fish, and is not known to 

 attack human beings, 



Genus CROCODILUS. 



Laureuti, Syn. Kept. p. 53 (1768). 



16 to 19 upper and 14 or 15 lower teeth on each side ; fourth 

 or fifth maxillary tooth largest ; fourth mandibular tooth usually 

 fitting into a notch in the upper jaw. Snout more or less elon- 

 gate ; nasal bones extending to the nasal opening, which is larger 

 than the supratemporal fossa3 ; a very small anterior bony plate 

 in the upper eyelid. Splenial bones not entering the mandibular 

 symphysis, wliich does not extend beyond the eighth tooth 

 (usually to the fourth or fifth). A dorsal shield formed of 

 four or more longitudinal series of juxtaposed, keeled, bony 

 scutes. 



The species of this genus are spread over Africa, Southern 

 Asia, the northern parts of Australasia, and Tropical America. 



Two species are dealt with here : — 



Suout (the portion of the head in front of the orbits) 



1| to 2| times as long- as broad, with a juore or 



less strong ridge on each side in front of the eye ; 



postoccipital scutes usually absent C. porosus, p. 4. 



Snout 1^ to \\ times as long as broad, without 



ridges; four small scutes in a transverse series 



between the occiput and the nuclial scutes C. jMlttstris, p. 6. 



II, -2; Crocodilus porosus, 



Schneid. Hist. Ampli. ii, p. 150 (1801) ; Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 



Bengal, xvi, p. 622 (1847) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 62 (1864) ; 



Bouleng. Cat. Chelon. &c. p. 284 (1889); id. Faun. Brit. Ind., 



Eept. p. 4 (1890) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 623; Annandale, 



Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 147 (1903). 

 Crocodilus vuUjaris, part., Cantor^ t. c. p. 621. 



