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about here. He locates a mugger lying in the mud at the bottom, and 
places the stick he carries on the animal’s back, which remains motionless, for 
some reason or other. Other men then come into the water, and duck under 
and get a rope round him, and he is then pulled out. 
The other method I have seen. When the river water recedes the dunds are 
partially drained through narrow channels. Mugger wandering at night 
take refuge in the deeper spots in these channels and are tracked there. 
The first step is to burn away all overhanging grass and bushes, as the brute 
is invariably lying in a hole under the bank, head outwards, and under water 
of course. His head is located by a stick and a small hand net is placed over 
his head. I have never quite understood the reason of this, as it would be of no 
use to hold him or to protect the men. I believe that when a crocodile feels 
any pressure on his body or head he is disinclined to move, possibly through 
fright. 
Another man then gets into the water and with the head actually touching 
him, and facing him, ties a rope round the mugger’s neck, or forelegs. 
Until pulled to the surface he makes no movement of any kind, and the whole 
proceeding is the tamest and most unexciting affair imaginable. 
A wounded mugger is another proposition and feared by the men who do 
this work. 
Regarding the treatment of skins, I have found that they will keep indefi- 
nitely it put into a pit in the groimd after being well cleaned and kept in brine. 
Though the Railway do not accept wet skins it is possible to pack them while 
wet into a packing case and send them in this way. 
I attach two photographs showing the second method of catching crocodile 
aUve, and it will be noticed that the lower jaw of the animal depicted has been 
shot away partially at some time. We also found a number of hard lumps in 
which we expected to find bullets, but they only contained hard black sand or 
something similar. 
“ SIND.” 
2nd February 1922. 
No. XVI.— FOOD OF THE FAT-TAILED LIZARD {EUBLEPHABIS 
MACULABIUS). 
As very little is known of the food of Indian Lizards it may be of interest to 
record that the Fat-tailed Lizards (E. macularius) living in captivity in the So- 
ciety’s rooms feed very readily on any Lizards introduced into their cage ; a 
young skink (Mabuia carinata) and a common blood sucker (Calotes versicolor) 
were both very easily accounted for. On one occasion an immature Fat-tailed 
Lizard {E. macularius) met with a similar fate. 
The two lizards have Hved in the Society’s rooms for the past 5 years. They 
were presented by Capt. W. B. Cotton from Wano Waziristan, and until quite 
recently they lived almost exclusively on Spiders and Insects, chiefly 
grasshoppers and cockroaches, and could even be tempted into eating the 
crumbs of a biscuit. Their vision by day strikes one as being rather defective 
as it is constantly noticed that they make several aimless snaps at food which is 
hterally under their noses ; this was strikingly displayed in the case of a i^ ki nk 
who, hemmed in a corner by one of these hzards, repeatedly wriggled into safety 
owing to the blundering tactics of its pursuer. These lizards betray an 
extreme ferocity in attack, one of them sprung from the ground on to a 
branch about 8 inches overhead in an attempt to secure its victim. Since 
writing the above the writer introduced a scorpion into the cage occupied by 
the lizards. It was immediately seized and swallowed, repeatedly stinging 
