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REPTILES. 



i. Young, stuffed. Length 24 inches. N. Africa. Presented by 



Sir I. Gardnor Wilkinson. 

 j- Young, stuffed, not good state. Length 19 inches. Nuchal 



plates 4, cervical 6. 

 k. Half grown, stuffed. Face rather convex before the eyes. 



Length 60 inches. N. Africa. 



The Muggar or Goa. Crocodilus palustris, Lesson, Belanqer, 

 Voy. 305. C. vulgaris, var. Gray, Syn. Rept. 58. Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. iii. 108. C. biporcatus, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 1, /. 4-(13?), 

 skull. C. biporcatus raninus, Muller, Ost. Ind. t. 3,/. 7, (not/. 8). 



Head elongate-oblong, triangular, convex and rugose above, 

 with 2 short, irregular, nodulose, sinuous ridges in front of the or- 

 bit, sides rather swollen behind the notch, rather more than half 

 as long again as the width of the head behind; muzzle at the first 

 notch nearly two thirds the width of the forehead, at the 9th tooth 

 as wide as two thirds the space between the eyes and nostrils ; fore- 

 head concave, with the sides nearly parallel in the young and con- 

 verging towards the front in the adult. 



a. Half grown, stuffed. Nuchal plates 4, cervical 6. Length 63 

 inches. India. From Dr. Mantell's collection. 



b. Half grown, stuffed. Length 56 inches. India. 



c. Young, stuffed. Length 22 inches. India. Presented by Gen. 



Th. Hardwicke. 



<l. Skull of half grown animal. Length 12 inches. India. 



e. Skull of adult. Length 26 inches, ("animal 33 feet"). Pre- 

 sented by Gibson Reeve, Esq. 



/. Skull of adult. Length 23 iuches. India. 



y. Skull of adult. Length 21 inches. N. coast of Australia. Pre- 

 sented by Capt. Stokes, R.N. 



h. Half grown, stuffed. Length 72 inches. Muzzle rather broad- 

 er ; shields strongly keeled. India? 



?'. Very young, in spirits. India. Presented by Gen. Th. Hard- 

 wicke. 



k. Young, stuffed. Length 28 inches. From Mr. Miers' collec- 

 tion. 



/. Shield and part of back of adult. Length 84 inches. India. 



The largest in the Paris Museum is about 10 feet; muzzle at 

 the 9th tooth much wider than in C. vulgaris. 



'p c 



The Wide-faced Crocodile. Crocodilus trigonops. 



Nuchal plates 4 ; cervical 6, large, strongly keeled ; head ob- 

 long, triangular, convex, rugose above, with 2 short, irregular, si- 

 nuous ridges in front of the orbit, and an oblong convexity upon 

 each side, above the 9th tooth ; sides of the face rather swollen be- 

 hind the notch, rather more than half as long again as the width 

 of the head behind ; muzzle at the first notch nearly two thirds 



