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gharials, but have only at present the data o£ one case. In 
1897 a gharial killed and ate a fakir who was bathing in 
the river at Mahaban, near Muttra ; about a week later, on 
April 19, 1897, the reptile was shot by Captain E. 0. Wathen, 
5th Royal Irish Lancers, and some remains of the fakir 
found inside it. The gharial measured 15 feet 10 inches 
(4*82 metres) overall in a straight line, and was in girth, 
one foot behind the forelegs, 5 feet 8 inches (1*72 metres). 
The skeleton of this gharial and a bone of the man it killed 
are now in the British Museum (Natural History). 
I am indebted to Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., for his 
kindness in looking up the British Museum registers to 
confirm the above details, and for giving me other valuable 
and interesting information about the Crocodilia. 
6. — Stones in Crocodiles' Stomachs. 
In the Indian Museum at Calcutta some stones found in 
the stomach of a gharial are exhibited. 
Two recent papers on this subject may by mentioned : — 
(1) H. W. Forsyth, “ Stones in Gharials’ Stomachs.” 
(Journal Bombay Nat. His. Society, XX, 1910, 
p. 229). 
(2) E. W. Shann, “The Contents of the Stomach of 
a Nile Crocodile.” (Cairo Scientific Journal, IV, 
1910, p. 279.) 
In “ Land and Water,” August 24, 1896 (or 1898 ?), there 
is an account of the shooting on the Gunduk river, in Tirhoot, 
of a gharial 16 feet 11 inches (5*15 metres) in length, ap- 
parently a male, which states : “ his inside was full of stones, 
varying from 3 inches in diameter to large gravel, a very 
useful digestive, but heavy.” 
7. — Crocodiles in Indian Zoological Gardens. 
In the twelve zoological gardens visited 1 only saw forty- 
two Crocodilians, twenty -one of these being in Calcutta, 
where four species were represented, Garialis (janijetkus 
(five individuals), Crococlilus porosus^ Crocodilns palustris^ 
and the American Alluiator mississippiensis. 
