132 DR. J. B. GRAT'S SYNOPSIS OP THE SPECIES 



Family I. GAVIALIDiE. 



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. 



Crocodilida (part.), Gray, Ann. Philos. x. 195, 1825. 

 Crocodilida § * Gray, Cat. Tortoises & Crocod. B.M. 36. 

 Gavialidce, Huxley, Joiirn. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. iv. p. 16, 1859. 



Synopsis of Genera. 

 Gavialis. 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. 



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Beak of skull linear, end dilated from the enlarged nostrils. Teeth 7,^^ , or ggngg. 



The mandibular symphysis extends to the twenty-thii'd or twenty-fourth tooth. Most 

 of the lateral teeth of both jaws are directed obliquely, and not received into inter- 

 dental pits. The front margia 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. 



Mem. Mus. xii. Huxley, Proc. Linn. Soc. 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, Lace'p. Q. O. 1235, t. 15. Faugas, Mont. S. P. 235, t. 8. f. 46, 47. 



Lucerta gangetica, Gmelin, S. N. i. 1057. Shaw, Zool. iii. 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 aUve ; but the reward was never claimed. 



An account of the discovery appeared in the 'Field Newspaper' for 1861 or 1862; and another, with a 

 hgure of the specimen, was pubUshed in Hardwicke's ' Science Gossip,' Jan. 1, 1867, p. 7, figs. 1 ife 2. Dr. 

 Vesahus Pettigrew and Mr. Frank Buckland thought 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 timbilkvs. The figure 

 shows too long and slender a beak fcr a young specimen of any Crocodile I have seen. 



