3340 THE ZooLoGist— DECEMBER, 1872. 
I said, ‘‘ You must treat them as you would if you desired to tame any other 
wild creature; keep them in the dark until they get used to confinement, 
and by degrees let light on them.” Mr. Lord carried out my suggestion in 
an ingenious way: he put the freshly-caught fish in the freshly-drawn thick 
water, where the fish could not see eighteen inches before them, and added 
to the obscurity by a thick curtain, allowing no visitors to pester them or 
frighten them until they were tame enough to bear it. From ten days to a 
fortnight of this will tame almost any fish, as we find from experience, and 
I make no doubt but we shall be able to keep alive, and exhibit for any 
reasonable time, any fish that is found on our coast, provided, of course, it 
is a fish that we can feed.—Francis Francis, in the ‘ Field’ of Nov. 9th. 
Additional Notes on Indian Crocodiles.—The following notes (privately 
authenticated) have been published in a local paper, in reference to my 
former communication on the subject (Zool. S. 8. 2862). They can hardly 
be said to be parallel cases, but I think they are of interest, as illustrative 
of the wonderful sight of these brutes :—{1) ‘‘ In 1863, while fishing in the 
Nerbudda, not far from Jubbulpore, I saw a mugger (C. palustris) swim 
slowly to the bank, not fifty yards from me, and seize a pariah dog which 
was sleeping four or five feet above the water's edge. Another instance 
I saw near Morar, when fishing in the river Koharee with Colonel B., of my 
regiment. He called my attention to a large mugger which was crossing 
the pool we were fishing in. It evidently had its eyes on something we did 
not see, as there was a slight bend in the river just above us. When he was 
close to the shore he made a rapid rush, and seized a large otter which was 
basking in the sun about four feet up the bank. Until I saw this I had 
no idea of the pace a mugger can go at. This took place in 1865. In both 
these cases I can answer for the tail not being used for the purpose of 
knocking the animals into the water.” (2) “On the 22nd of September 
I saw a gharial (G. Gangeticus) take one out of a flock of cranes, on the 
banks of the Sutlej, below Pak Puttun. The bird taken was standing with 
the rest on a spit of sand, and the gharial suddenly darted, seized, and 
deyoured it, amid the cackling of its excited friends. None of the natives 
with me had ever seen or heard of such a case. I have known of a gharial, 
in a pool left in the bed of the Gomul stream in Dehra Ismail Khan, which 
bit cattle that waded into the pool to drink. He was very troublesome in 
this way till the pool dried sufficiently to admit of his being hunted out and 
killed. He had probably consumed all the fish in the pool, and was ravenous 
with hunger.” —A. Anderson. 
E., NEWMAN, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE, 
