BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 7 
snout, and then began one of the most awful struggles for 
supremacy between beast and reptile, which it is possible for 
the mind of man to conceive. At the outset the bull by sheer 
strength dragged its adversary from the water, but failed utter- 
ly in its attempt to shake off the tenacious grip of its stub- 
born foe; meanwhile, however, the agonized bellowings 
of the tortured brute had brought to its assistance all the cattle 
in the neighbourhood ; these at once intrepidly attacked the 
common enemy, but without in the slightest degree causing it 
to relax its hold upon its helpless victim. So the terrible 
struggle raged backwards and forwards for a full half hour, 
until at length another bull by chance struck the crocodile 
under the forearm, and the horn entering deeply, enabled it 
to toss the reptile, which in falling broke its back, and was 
easily despatched by the infuriated cattle. By this time, 
however, as may be supposed, very little of the face of the 
victimized bull remained, and as it had also one of its fore 
legs broken, the poor suffering brute had to be killed.  As- 
suredly such a Homeric struggle must have been worth going 
a long way to witness; beside its tragedy how pitiful and 
degrading appears the tinsel pomp of the arena! Mr. Milroy, 
to whom I am indebted for the above graphic description, 
believes that if they had been left alone to fight out their 
battle, victory would ultimately have declared itself on the 
side of the reptile. 
For further information regarding its, habits, breeding, 
ete., see my paper on * Australian Crocodiles ”’ above referred 
to. 
Orper II. TESTUDINATA.* 
THE TORTOISES AND TURTLES. 
Body more or less fully encased in a bony shell, which 
consists of an upper piece, the carapace, and a lower, the 
plastron. Jaws without teeth, covered with a horny sheath 
so as to form a entting edge. Sternum wanting. (T'estudo, 
gen. testudinis, a tortoise.) 
*I would greatly have preferred using the title Chelonia for this order 
of reptiles, but since that name properly belongs to the genus of which the 
green turtle is the tyre, it is inadmissable as an ordinal name. 
