38 NOTE ON THE FOSSIL GHARIAL of the SIVALIK HILLS. 



" que, dans les vieux Crocodiles des Iiides, cet endroit est beaucoup plus 

 " renfle que dans les jeunes." 



These demi-cylindiical swellings are highly developed in the 10 feet 

 5 inches specimen of which the measurements have been given ; whereas in 

 the smaller and younger animal measuring 8 feet 8 inches, there is no 

 appearance of them ; the sphenoid portion lying under the palatine and 

 extending up to the anterior frontal's apophysis, in a flat uninflated lami- 

 nated bone. From the little difference that exists between the bones of the 

 Gharidl and of the Crocodile, we are unable to separate the remains of one 

 from those of the other ; a great quantity have been found, teeth, osseous 

 plates, ribs, vertebrae, &c., the latter, having the concavo-convex body, 

 and the sacral vertebrae, with their transverse processes compressed and 

 cylindrical, agree in every respect with the existing animal. 



Northern Doah, October 1, 1835. 



Plates II. and III., lithographed subsequently to the printing of the above description, 

 illustrate the Author's observations on the comparison of the fossil with the existing species of 

 Crocodile and Gharidl. The necessary explanations are given on the Plates. Sec. 



