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dark olive in colour, the young being paler and spotted with brown. The 
neuchal and dorsal scutes are composed of 21 or 22 transverse series and form 
a continuous shield. The fingers are webbed, and there is a crest on the 
outer edge of the forearm, leg and foot. The snout is usually four times as 
long as the breadth of the skull at the base. It infests the Indus, Ganges, 
and Brahmaputra, and most of the big streams in Eastern Bengal, Orissa 
and Arakan. 
Grocodilus Porosus.— -The Mugger. The snout is about twice as long as 
the breadth at the base of the skull. Four large neuchal scutes with smaller 
ones on each side ; the dorsal shield forms sixteen or seventeen transverse 
and usually six longitudinal series. Scales on sides and limbs fairly smooth. 
Fingers and toes partially webbed with a serrated fringe on the outer edge 
of the leg. The adult is dark olive above, pale below ; the young are paler 
and spotted. It inhabits the rivers of Bengal, the East Coast of India 
and Burma, enters salt water, and is frequently seen at sea. It feeds on human 
beings, animals, fish and carrion, and often exceeds 30 feet in length, and 
has 17 to 19 upper teeth on each side. 
Crocodilus P elustvis , also the Mugger, Its habitat is practically the same 
as that of C. Povosus, and its general form, arrangement of scales and coloui are 
very similar, but it can easily be distinguished from Porosus by its shorter 
