THE 
ST. DOMINGO CROCODILE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body four-footed, elongated, tailed; without 
any secondary integument. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, is’f. 
CROCODILE with flexuous snout; the two 
front teeth of the lower jaw perforating 
the upper. 
CROCODILE DE ST. DOMINGUE. 
Geoffroy Am. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
No. 7. pi. 37. 
This species, which in general appearance bears the 
greatest resemblance to the common or Nilotic Croco¬ 
dile, is a native of the West-Indian islands, and ap¬ 
pears to have been first described by Mons. Geoffroy 
in the Annates du Museum National d’Hisloire Naturelle. 
The specimen examined by Mons. Geoffroy measured 
about four feet. 
