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which is confined to the rivers in the interior of the country. ‘The Coombeer or Muggar 
ascends the rivers to the mountains, where the water is often frozen. ‘The Ghurrial, on 
the contrary, is confined to the lower level, where the climate is warm. 
In stating that there are three species of Crocodiles in India, I only intend to state 
there are three distinct forms; for I will not undertake to say for certain that the 
Muggar of Ceylon, of Siam, and of India are not distinct species. 
Mr. Blyth observes, “‘ Both the Gangetic species of Crocodiles have been received by 
the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, from Java. ‘The Crocodiles are known to abound in 
Timor, from which island they may well have passed to Australia. Governor Grey met 
with them in the north-west.”—Blyth, Rep. Austral. Vert. in Mus. A.S. C. 
If by “ both the Gangetic species of Crocodile” Mr. Blyth means the estuarine Croco- 
dile (Oopholis porosus) and the Coombeer or Muggar (Bombifrons indicus), no example 
of the latter animals from either Java, Timor, or Australia has occurred to me, and the 
animal figured as Crocodilus raninus by Dr. Salomon Muller is certainly Oopholis porosus ; 
and there is in the British Museum a fine adult skull of that species sent by the Leyden 
Museum from Jaya. 
The observations of MM. Duméril and Bibron (Erp. Gén. 25, 47), that Crocodiles are 
not. found in Australia, and that the American Crocodiles are confined to the islands of 
that continent, are no longer consistent with facts; indeed, long before the publication 
of their work, various travellers had recorded the occurrence of Crocodiles on the north 
coast of Australia. 
The estuarine Oopholis porosus was observed by Governor Grey on the north-west 
coast of Australia. There is in the British Museum a skull of the species sent thence, 
and also a full-grown specimen which was killed and preserved in that country. 
The Island of Borneo is inhabited by a false Garial, named Tomistoma schlegelii. 
I am not aware that it has been found in any of the other islands of the archipelago. 
It is intermediate in character between the true Garial and the Crocodiles. 
The Crocodiles and Alligators are widely distributed in America. There are four 
American Crocodiles, and nine Alligators. One of the Crocodiles, Palinia rhombifer, 
is peculiar to the island of Cuba. The other species of Crocodiles and the Alligators 
are found on the mainland. The Alligator mississippensis is found far north, where the 
waters are often frozen; all the other Alligators and American Crocodiles are confined 
to the tropical and subtropical parts of the continent. MJolinia americana is found in 
Cuba and St. Domingo, as well as in the rivers of the east and west side of the conti- 
nent, showing the incorrectness of the assertion of MM. Duméril and Bibron that the 
Crocodiles of America are confined to the islands of that continent (Erp. Gén. 25, 47)'. 
®' In the ‘ Gentleman’s Magazine’ for August 1866 appears an article, entitled “‘ Notes on a Yoyng Crocodile 
found in a Farmyard at Over Norton, Oxfordshire,” by George R. Wright, F.S.A. Mr. Wright observed the 
specimen in a case of birds and animals, preserved by Mr. William Phillips, who said that it was found lying 
dead in a gutter in his farmyard, evidently but lately killed; its bowels protruded from a wound in the belly, 
