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In C. pulmtris the snout is blunter than in its congener, being at the base 

 only one and one-third to one and a half as long as it is broad. At all ages 

 there are five teeth in the upper jaw from the median line to the notch. The 

 head has no ridges, and the pre-maxillo maxillary suture is nearly straight 

 across. There are four post-orbital scutes and six cervical scales, lozenge- 

 shaped, all strong and well defined, as are also the dorsal scutes when compared 

 with C. jiorosus. It is found everywhere in India, and except in the length 

 of the snout is identical with C. niloticus from Africa and Madagascar from 

 which it differs only by having a somewhat shorter snout. This species is 

 found everywhere in India ; but we are in total ignorance of the distribution 

 of C. porosus. 



Readers of the Field in India might do good service to natural history by 

 recording the species of crocodile found in different localities, particularly of 

 C. porosus, about which so little is known, and I hope that the descriptions 

 I have given will enable them to identify the two species I have written 

 about. 



SMOOTHBORE. 

 (The above appeared in the Field.) 



No. VII— LEOPARD versus CHITAL. PIG versus LEOPARD. 

 While on a shooting trip in Berar last Christmas, I heard one night, about 

 10 o'clock, a number of chital barking close to my camp ; the night was 

 fine with nearly a full moon ; this noise continued during the night : at least 

 I heard it on the several occasions I awoke, and it all appeared to come from 

 the one direction. I was up very early next morning, and accompanied by a 

 shikari went in the direction where I still heard the barks. We had not 

 gone far when I caught sight of a very large herd of chital moving about 

 in a restless manner. I stood still to watch ; every now and then a doe would 

 stop, elongate her neck and bark. Among the herd were several fine stags, 

 but these, as far as I could observe from a distance, made no noise whatever. 

 One doe was standing by herself some twenty yards in front of the herd 

 and kept up a constant series of loud barks. She was facing a small bush, some 

 thirty yards in front ; behind the herd stretched a thick tree jungle ; in front 

 the ground was fairly open, with small teak trees scattered about. I went 

 slowly on towards the herd, which did not appear to take the least notice 

 of my approach, but continued to walk up and down. I stopped again when 

 some sixty yards from the deer and looked carefully about in front to try and 

 discover what all the excitement was about. At last my eye caught sight of 

 the head and neck of a leopard on the opposite side of the small bush, which 

 the advanced doe was intently staring at ; the leopard was apparently standing 

 up and must have been distinctly seen by the herd, as well as by the doe. 

 I watched this interesting scene for a couple of minutes, and then moved 

 to one side to try and see more of the leopard. As I did so, I noticed three 

 pigs, some little distance behind the leopard ; two appeared to be rooting at 



