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CROCODILUS * CUVIERI. 
TAB. Gal: 
C. rostro depresso, scutis nuche sex ; scutis duobus mediis 
majoribus, distantioribus, posticis minoribus approxima- 
tioribus; dorso medio lineis octo scutarum; lineis dua- 
bus mediis approximatis ab aliis remotioribus. 
Habitat in Insula Dauphine in America Australi. 
Mus. Britann. 
CUVIERIAN ALLIGATOR. 
Rostrum depressed ; scales of the Meee six ; the two middle 
ones largest, and more distant from each other; hinder 
ones smaller, more approximate; middle of the back 
with eight lines of scales; the two middle lines nearer 
to each other, and distant from the others. 
This species was killed by Major De Bathe, of the 85th 
Regiment, on Dauphine Island, in Seuth America, and was 
by him presented to the British Museum. 
{t differs from Cuvier’s North- American Crocodilus lucius 
(caiman a museau de brochet ry: to which it makes the near- 
est approach, by having six neck-scales, the two larger of 
which are more posterior, and not anterior, as given in his 
figure ; likewise in the proportional distance of the lines 
of scales that run down the back, which are of an equal 
distance in Cuvier’s species; whilst, in the present one, 
the two middle lines are at a distance from the others, and 
are near to each other, 
