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snout and by having jive teeth on each pre-maxillary bone, while the latter 
has but jour• 
Crocodiles are by no means wary and permit a close approach. They feed 
chiefly at night and bask in the day. 
If well placed a single shot bags them ; but the brain of a crocodile is very 
small, and unless the bullet penetrates it or breaks the neck, it frequently, 
though mortally wounded, dives and may not be recovered for 24 hours. A '450 
Express is the best weapon, and a hollow bullet with a solid base gives the 
greatest shock effect. 
THE GAME DESTROYERS. 
With the marked decrease in game in several parts of India which has led 
to the adoption of active measures for preservation in several large areas, and 
with the ever-increasing efficiency in firearms, the increase in native professional 
shikaries, and the extension of cultivation, it has become urgently necessary for 
sportsmen to turn their attention to the game destroyers of India. It is not 
suggested that a war of extermination should be waged against every species, 
but it is hoped that sportsmen will take such steps—chiefly by shooting at sig lit 
the natural foes of Indian game—as wifi tend towards the restoration of that 
