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specimen, the dimensions of which are not given. It is, however, now generally 
recognized that all of these supposed species are nothing more than varieties of the 
common crocodile of Africa. 
Bory de St. Vincent * has also described the Nile crocodile under the name 
C. chamses. The crocodile described by Baikie from the Niger as C. binuensis 2 , 
and the one from Madagascar named by Grandidier 3 C. madagascariensis, are both 
unquestionably specifically identical with C. niloticus. 
1 Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. v. 1824, p. 105. 
2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 48. 
3 Ann. Se. Nat. xv. 1872, art. 20. 
