The Habits of Malay Reptiles. 
By Н. N. RIDLEY, 
In putting together these few notes on the habits of some 
of our reptiles, I would commence by calling attention to the 
very valuable paper on the Reptiles and Batrachians of the 
met with since. Some were perhaps erroneously identified or 
wrongly localised, and some perhaps have disappeared. Others, 
owever, have doubtless been overlooked, and that is especially 
the case in the tortoises, and the smallest lizards. Snakes are 
often preserved by amateurs, as are the showier lizards, but 
the other reptiles often escape collection. No better instance 
of this is that of the big Gavial Tomistoma, which was really 
sportsman long ere this, 
TORTOISES. 
with pink spots. When young the edge of its shell is armed 
with spiny processes, whence its name, but these disappear аз it 
grows older. It seems never to leave the damper parts of the 
forests, and is seldom far away from the ll streams. These 
tortoises eat all kinds of vegetable substances, fruit of all kinds 
and leaves, and I once found two small ones greedily devouring 
