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or C. porosus, but after that it tends to become a very heavy 
thick-set animal like the American Alligatoi'. 
4. — Size of Indian Crocodiles. 
The Ghakial, Garialis gangeticus. 
“The gharial reaches a length of 20 feet.” (Boulenger, 
“Fauna of British India,” Keptilia, 1890, p. 3.) 
In the Victoria Museum, Karachi, I saw a stuffed gharial 
from the Indus, in length, as stuffed, 14 feet 9 inches.^ 
In the Natural History Museum of Vienna there are a 
pair of gharial s stuffed ; the male about 5*50 metres 
(18 feet J inch), the female about 5 metres (16 feet 
5 inches) in total length. 
Captain J. Johansen has told me of gharials reaching the 
length of 25 to 30 feet (7*62 to 9*14 metres) in the Brah- 
maputra Biver. These are referred to in the late Herr Carl 
Hagenbeck’s book, “ Beasts and Men,” 1909, on page 201, 
and I have myself seen very large individuals in the Ganges. 
The largest gharial that I ever saw was in that river, near 
Ghazipur, in January, 1895. He successfully eluded my 
endeavours to secure him as a specimen ; he was a male, and 
according to the estimates, made very carefully at the time, 
was not less than 30 feet (9*14 metres) in length, and may 
have been several feet longer, "j* 
The Estuarine Crocodile, Orocodihis porosus. 
In the British Museum there is a skull from Bawisal, 
Bengal, “stated by the donor to have pertained to a specimen 
33 feet long, and measuring 13 feet 8 inches round the 
body.” (Boulenger, “Brit. Mus. Cat.” Chel., J889, p. 285.) 
A specimen killed at Matang, Perak, Malay Peninsula, 
measured in length 24 feet 8 inches (7*51 metres). 
{Vide P.Z.S., 1899, p. 624.) 
^ Mr. F. Ludlow kindly measured this specimen for me, and said that, allo^\■ing• fur 
shrinkage, the length would have been “ undoubtedly greater in the freshly killed 
animal.” 
f Lieut. T. G. Carless recorded having seen in 1836-B7, in the River Indus, four 
gharials at leant 30 feet Ion(j. Vide ‘-Tiie Zoological Gardens, Karachi,” by 
H. P. Farrel and F. Ludlow, page 86. 
