Amphibious animals. XXV. Vol. VI. No. 6 1. 



THE CROCODILE OF ST. DOMINGO. 



Among the animals discover'd in modern 

 times is also to be reckon'd the Crocodile of 

 St. Domingo, of which we first were nearer 

 in fornvd by the french General Ledere , who 

 sent a couple of them to France for the natu- 

 ralists there. Hitherto they imagin'd, that 

 America possess'd but one species of Croco- 

 dile, the Caiman, which we see the draught 

 of in the IV. Vol. No. 14. of our gallery. Ho- 

 wever that, which was discover'd at St. Do- 

 mingo , and here is represented , exhibits a 

 second, new and quite different species, so 

 that we at present know two American Croco- 



diles, viz. the Caiman and the Crocodile of St. 

 Domingo. The last entirely differs from the 

 Caiman y with regard to the bignefs and by 

 other qualities, more resembling to the great 

 Nile-Crocodile, so that at first it was thought 

 to be one and the same species with this. 

 Yet more accurate researches have sufficient- 

 ly evinced the difference. 



Fig. II. represents the skull of a Nile- 

 Crocodile, with gaping jaws, where the lar- 

 ge murderous teeth of this terrible animal 

 are more distinctly to be seen. 



