628 MR. G, A. BOULENGER ON SCHLEGEL’S GAVIAL. [June 16, 
the flexor perforans and runs to the third digit. These slips are 
in addition to the ordinary short flexors, and it is possible that 
they throw light upon the origin of the very peculiar modes of 
distribution of the hallucis tendon in some groups of birds, as it 
has been repeatedly shown that a tendon may be the homologue of 
a muscle. 
Entepicondylo-ulnaris.—This muscle, which according to Gadow 
is present only in Rasores and in the Tinamou, is absent in 
Opisthocomus. This is another of the innumerable points separating 
Opisthocomus from Fowls. 
2. On the Occurrence of Schlegel’s Gavial (Tomistoma schle- 
geli) in the Malay Peninsula, with Remarks on the Atlas 
and Axis of the Crocodilians. By G. A. BouLtencer, 
F.R.S. 
[Received May 29, 1896.] 
A Gharial-like Crocodile, Tomistoma schlegelii, described by 
Salomon Miller in 1838, was, until lately, believed to be peculiar 
to Borneo. In 1890, however, its occurrence in Sumatra was 
recorded by Max Weber (Zool. Ergebn. p. 176). The Malay 
Peninsula may now be added to its habitat. 
A few months ago, the British Museum received, from Mr. L. 
Wray, Curator of the Perak Government Museum, a fine half- 
grown specimen, with the following remarks :— 
“The specimen was caught at Pulau Tiga, in the Perak river, in 
June 1895, and I kept it in a pond until the end of December, 
when it was killed. For months it would eat nothing but a few 
small fish, but during the later portion of the time it would eat 
freely of any meat or fish given to it. It also became quite tame 
and would remain at the surface of the water with its head on the 
bank while people stood near it. 
“So far as I have been able to ascertain, no Crocodile belonging 
to the Gavial group has ever been recorded from the Malayan 
Peninsula, so that the following particulars will be of interest. 
“T first heard of the occurrence of a Gavial in the State of 
Perak in 1889, and in the same year Mr. Cecil Wray, the then 
Acting Superintendent of Lower Perak, obtained a skull from the 
Perak river, and sent it to the Perak Museum; the animal was 7 
feet long. A second was caught in the Kinta river, near Batu 
Gajah, in 1893 or 1894. It was secured by Capt. H. C. Metcalfe, 
of the Perak Sikhs, and the skin is now in his possession. It 
measures 6 feet 8 inches, but the tail is very short, having pro- 
bably been injured when young ; the head measures 18 inches, the 
upper jaw 30 inches, and the lower jaw 23 inches. A third 
was taken from the Batang Padang river near Tapah, and was 
seen by Mr. Page, the Inspector of Police at Tapah. It was 
