is@ THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
The method adopted in 
Queensland and North 
Australia for capturing these 
destructive monsters is. that 
of a running noose, so at- 
tached to a suitably flexible 
mangrove tree growing in the 
vicinity of its nocturnal runs 
as to constitute a gigantic 
spring-trap. A dead carcase 
or other suitable bait is added 
to lure the animal to its 
doom. The crocodiles thus 
caught arealiveand uninjured, 
and can be dispatched or 
reserved for menagerie exhi- 
bition. A somewhat amusing 
incident attended the trans- 
CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS, WITH YOUNG port of a“ reprieved” captive 
Notwithstanding their proverbially irascible dispositions, these reptiles, of all ages and dimen- by steamship from Cairns to 
sions, herd together on the most amiable terms Brisbane, Queensland, a few 
years since. In the dead of 
night, when all but the watch and engineer had retired to rest (they have to anchor and lay-to 
at night in the Great Barrier Reef channels), the saurian managed to free himself from his 
bonds, and started on a voyage of discovery around the decks. Arriving at the stoke-hold, he 
either incontinently stumbled into it, or descended of madice prepense, sniffing the chance of 
a supper or a good joke at the engineer's expense. Anyway, the engineer was aroused from his 
peaceful dozings with the impression that the last day of reckoning had arrived, and, rushing 
up the hatchway, awakened the whole ship’s strength with his frantic outcries. 
The NILE CROCODILE, the most familiar form in European menageries, and once abundant 
throughout Egypt to the Nile’s delta, has now retired to the upper reaches of that great 
river. It never attains to the dimensions of the estuarine form. By the ancient Egyptians, 
as is well known, this species 
Photo by Scholastic Photo. Co. 
was pampered andworshipped 
with divine honours’ while 
living, and after death em- 
balmed and preserved in the 
catacombs. 
Other noteworthy croco- 
diles, of which space will allow 
only of the mention of their 
names, are the AMERICAN or 
ORINOCO CROCODILE, and the 
LONG-SNOUTED CROCODILE 
of West Africa, which distantly 
approach to the LONG- 
SNOUTED GAVIAL or GARIAL 
of India, in which the snout 
is elongated in a_beak-like 
manner, and armed with close A CROCODILE FROM SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 
rows of long, recurved teeth, 
Photo by Robert D. Carson, Esq.) [ Philadelphia 
The teeth of crocodiles, as compared with those of alligators, are much less uniform in size 
specially adapted for its ex- and character 
