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The Crocodile ur * Buaya ' (Crocodilus porosits) is stiJl 
common in the estuaries of Singapore island. The largest 
stuffed specimen In the Museum, from Serangoon, shot and 
presented by Mr. G. P. Owen in September 1887, measures 
15% feet. Still larger specimens are very rare, but there is 
also exhibited a skull, measuring 27 H inches from the snout to 
the supraoccipital crest, presented in the same year by Mr. 
G. Edgar, which must have belonged to a monster quite 22 feet 
in length. It probably came from Java. — ^There is also a large 
skull measuring 245^ inches, with very perfect teeth, from the 
Dindings, presented by Mr. R. J. Wilkinson in 1903. Being 
unknown on the West Coast of India, this Crocodile ranges 
from the East Coast of India and Ceylon to Burma, the Malay 
Archipelago, Southern China and Northern Australia. 
Crocodiles lay from twenty to sixty eggs at a time. The 
eggs are oval and have a hard white shell and measure about 
3 inches in length. It is astounding how vicious the young 
ones are if one opens an almost mature egg. They wriggle and 
snap and do all credit to the old ones. Some eggs, half opened, 
with the young ones nearly fully developed, are exhibited. 
The more common Crocodile of India is Crocodilus 
patustris, but it is doubtful whether it occurs on the Malay 
Peninsula. 
The Gavial, or more correctly 'Gharial' [Tomistoma 
schlegeli), the * buaya julong-julong ' of the Malays, is charac- 
terized by a long and narrow muzzle, with about twenty teeth in 
the upper jaw and nineteen in the lower. It lives in rivers and 
feeds chiefly on fish, but occasionally also attacks man. It is 
much scarcer than the Crocodile. The Museum possesses 
specimens from Sumatra and Borneo, but the Gavial also occurs 
on the Malay Peninsula. The largest specimen exhibited 
measures only 8 feet 4 inches, though monsters of fourteen to 
fifteen feet have been recorded, (see pi. XIV, fig, i). 
LIZARDS. 
The liiiards exceed by far the Chelonians and Crocodiles 
together in number of species and individuals, and more than 
sixty different kinds are exhibited. There are five families of 
Malayan lizards four of which contain well-known forms. 
(I.) Geckmiidae, including the House Geckos. 
(2.) Agatnidae, including the Flying Lizard and the 
Green Tree Lizard 
(3.) Varanidae^ the Monitors, wrongly called Iguanas, 
the largest members of the group. 
