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This species is also fdiind on the coast of Jobore, and there is a 

 skull from Pahang, on the east side of the Peninsula, in the 

 Taiping Museum. The Siamese Museum contains specimens from 

 the Tacheen river and from Ayuthia, and I have met them myself 

 on the Bangpakong river, between Pacbim and Patriew. In 

 Bangkok crocodiles are kept in a tank in the Eoyal Gardens, and 

 in at least one of the temples. 



Nowadays it is not seen wild in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Bangkok, but in 1 778, in Dr. Koeuig's journal (J. S. B. R. A. S. 

 no. 26, 1894), we read :—" November 8th: The Crocodiles swam 

 in front of our boat; they often made a dreadful noise, but the 

 people said we had nothing to fear from them here, they are only 

 dangerous further inland . . . Nov. 27th : The people offered the 

 flesh of a big crocodile for sale . . . the tail was best, and had 

 no smell at all. The King of Siam pays for every crocodile . . . 

 in order to extirpate these animals. Therefore the crocodiles are 

 afraid of any boat here, but higher up the country they attack 

 people and eat them ; " and such other entries. 



Size. The length to which these crocodiles attain is often a 

 matter of discussion, and it is difficult to estimate when they are 

 seen in the water. One from Ayuthia, Siam, I measured was 

 3-04 metres (10 feet). One shot' by Mr. Owen at Serangoon, 

 Singapore, measures as it is now, in the Eaffles Museum, 4-7 

 metres (15 feet 6 inches) ; but Mr. Owen tells me it was 16 feet 

 in total length in the flesh. 



The largest I have seen in Kedah, lying dead on the river-bank, 

 was about 3-67 metres (12 feet). 



Col. Frowd "Walker, C.M.G., has in his house at Taiping the 

 skull of a crocodile from Perak which measures in total length 

 about 812 mm. (2 feet 8 inches) ; he tells me the animal was 

 5-48 metres (18 feet) long, and a noted man-eater, knocking people 

 off the bathing-stages by the river's side. 



Mr. J. P. Eodger tells me that about the year 1886 the Grovern- 

 ment reward was paid for a crocodile killed at Kuala Selangor 

 5-64 metres (18 feet 6 inches) long. In the Taiping Museum 

 there is a strip of skin, from the snout to the end of the tail, of 

 a crocodile killed at Matang, Perak, presented to the museum by 

 Mr. E. Wagner, and which, Mr. L. Wray informed me, measured 

 7'51 metres (24 feet 8 inches). 



The British Museum Catalogue says " the largest specimen in 

 the collection measures 5-25 metres ; " and in reference to a skull 

 from Bawisaul, Bengal, says, in a footnote : " Stated by the donor 

 to have pertained to a specimen 33 feet long, and measuring 13 feet 

 8 inches round the body." 



Dimensions of skulls : — 



1st. Prom Tacheen river, Siam, now in Siamese Museum. 



Totallength (without lower 1 , , nn-i /r>i-^ mi • ^ 



• \ \ about 901 mm. (2 ft. 1 1| m.). 



Breadth in front of orbits 1 , . aa t /irj-ci- \ 



/<• 1, • N V about 444mm. (1 tt. 5A m.). 



(follow ing curve) .... J ^ 2 y 



