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Wynian's skull, identified (correctly) as C. acutus, really 

 came from elsewhere than Florida. For Hornaday makes it 

 clear that he did not believe that both he and Wyman had th.c 

 same species, -whereas what they had were conspecific individ- 

 uals of different ages. 



The closing chapter will now soon l)e written and before 

 many years the last Florida crocodile to be recorded will claim 

 historic interest in some museum equal to that now held by 

 Wyman's Aliami River skull. Happily, however, the reptile 

 has not wholly lacked biographers. C. B. Cory, in his Hunt- 

 ing and Fishing in Florida (Boston, Estes & Fauriat. 1896, 

 p. 70 ct scq.), devotes a short chapter to notes on crocodiles 

 and gives some fair photographs. In 19 18, however, A. W. 

 and Julian Dimock published their well-named Florida 

 Enchantments (Outing Publ. Co., 19 18, p. 89 et scq.). This 

 book contains photographs which are among the finest and 

 most valuable photographic records ever made in natural 

 history. 



The crocodile, dwindling yearly in numbers, still may be 

 found by the persistent hunter. About Ojus Creek and in 

 the mangrove sloughs between Hallandale and the ocean beach 

 a fair few still persist, and in February, 1920, a little croco- 

 dile was found in a small brackish pool not far from Mr. 

 Michael P. Grace's garden at Palm Beach by some of his 

 grandchildren. 



In February, 1919, Paul Clark, a local taxidermist at Palm 

 Beach, got one which was found in Ojus Creek, floating dead 

 after a hard freeze. I saw this animal after it had been badly 

 mounted, and was told that it measured 14 feet 8 inches, but 

 it had evidently been violently stretched. Clark subsequently 

 gained some local renown by dying from the bite of a coral 

 snake with which he had played. 



