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this crocodile as a small species. It will be observed from what Gundlach 
records that this is far from being the case. We have not been able to hear of the 
occurrence of such large individuals in the Cienaga of the Island of Pines. Here 
the species is said still to occur quite abundantly, although perforce it is restricted 
to a smaller area than that occupied by the colony of Cuban individuals. The 
skull ot Gundlach’s great example which he mentions is now in the Museo 
Gundlach of the Havana Instituto de Segunda Ensefianza. It is in a tight 
case and can not be measured but appears fully two feet long. 
We believe that Crocodilus moreleti A. Dumeril from “‘ Lac Flores, Yucatan”’ 
was really based upon a Cuban specimen of rhombifer carried to Central America 
and sent from there to Europe by Morelet who collected it during a visit to Cuba 
en route. Prof. de la Torre tells us that various molluscs were named which 
had this same history. The Alligator lacordairei of P. de Borre (Bull. Acad. 
roy. Belg. 1869, ser. 2, 28, p. 110, plate —) is we believe based upon a young 
Crocodilus acutus from Belize, although Boulenger places the name in the 
synonymy of C. moreleti, a species which he recognizes as valid. Dr. Boulenger, 
of course, did not know of the status of other species collected by Morelet. 
Since the preceding account was completed several observations of inter- 
est have been made. 
During the winter or rather Cuban early spring (February and March) 
of 1917 the senior author stayed, together with Messrs. John B. Henderson, 
W.S. Brooks, and the late Goodwin Warner, with Mr. Walter Wilcox at his large 
mahogany cutting on the eastern shore of the Ensenada de Cochinos, one of 
the most inaccessible regions in the Island. Here we found peculiar conditions. 
On the east side of the Bay the ‘‘seborucal” formation comes to the coast, 
heavily forested. It is a hard tiresome journey over the “‘diente perro,” the 
curiously eroded limestone, back from the salt water to the great reed-beds and 
fresh-water pond of the true Cienaga de Zapata system. There are a few 
bridle paths but moving about is painfully difficult. Numerous fresh streams 
flow from the Cienaga to the Ensenada, partly under the limestone which often 
sounds hollow under one’s horse’s feet, and partially open to the air where the 
tunnel roof has been dissolved away or has fallen in. Here as in the reed-bed 
ponds rhombifer abounds. Crocodiles are abundant, and we often saw rather 
large individuals; one seen on several occasions was probably over eleven feet 
long. On the opposite shore, the western, the conditions were very different. 
We frequently hunted along this coast and tramped far inland with Wilcox 
as guide; he had previously prepared the chart of the Bay since published by 
