132 DR. J. E. GRAY’S SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES 
Family I. GAVIALIDZ. 
The cervical and dorsal plates formed into a single continuous shield. Teeth nearly 
of uniform size, all fitting into notches on the edge of the upper jaw. The front large 
teeth fitting into a notch in the front, the canines into a notch on the sides of the 
front of the upper jaw. ‘The jaws elongate, slender. 
Crocodilide (part.), Gray, Ann. Philos. x. 195, 1825. 
Crocodilide § *, Gray, Cat. Tortoises & Crocod. B.M. 36. 
Gavialide, Huxley, Journ. Proc, Linn, Soe. Zool. iv. p. 16, 1859. 
Synopsis of Genera. 
Gaviauts. Beak elongate, linear, end swollen. The lateral teeth oblique, not received 
into pits. 
TomistoMa. Beak conical, thick at the back, the lateral teeth erect, received into pits 
between the teeth. 
1. GAVIALIS. 
Beak of skull linear, end dilated from the enlarged nostrils. Teeth — or = 
The mandibular symphysis extends to the twenty-third or twenty-fourth tooth. Most 
of the lateral teeth of both jaws are directed obliquely, and not received into inter- 
dental pits. The front margin of the orbit is much raised. 
Gavial, Oppel. Le gavial, Cuvier. 
Gavialis, Merrem, Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 195, 1825; Cat. Tortoises, &c., B. M. 36, 57, 1844. Geoff. 
Mém. Mus. xii. Huxley, Proc. Linn. Soe. Zool. iv. p. 20, 1859. 
Gavialia, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 
Ramphostoma, Wagler, Syst. Amph. 441. Rhamphognathus, Vogt, Zool. Brief. ii. 289. 
1. GaviALis GANGETICUS. (The Garial or Nakoo.) 
Narrow-beaked Crocodile, Edw. Phil. Trans. xlix. 639, t. 19. 
Le gavial, Lacép. Q. O. 1235, t. 15. Faugas, Mont. S. P. 235, t. 8. f. 46, 47. 
Lacerta gangetica, Gmelin, S. N.i. 1057. Shaw, Zool. ii. 197, t. 60. 
The men said it ran out of the stack of wood, they killed it, but they could easily get him another ; he offered 
a guinea for another specimen, dead or alive; but the reward was never claimed. 
An account of the discovery appeared in the ‘ Field Newspaper’ for 1861 or 1862; and another, with a 
figure of the specimen, was published in Hardwicke’s ‘Science Gossip,’ Jan. 1, 1867, p. 7, figs. 1 & 2. Dr. 
Vesalius Pettigrew and Mr. Frank Buckland thonght it was a very young Crocodile that had escaped from some 
travelling show. I should suspect that it was much more likely to be a just-hatched specimen that had 
been preserved in spirit and thrown away. The wound in the belly was probably the wmbilicus. The figure 
shows too long and slender a beak fcr a young specimen of any Crocodile I have seen. 
