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Show 624 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE f^ay 16, This species is also found on the coast of Johore, and there is a skull from Pahang, on the east side of the Peninsula, in the Taiping Museum. The Siamese Museum contains specimens from the Tacheen river and from Ayuthia, and I have met them myself on the Bangpakong river, between Pachim and Patriew. In Bangkok crocodiles are kept in a tank in the Royal Gardens, and in at least one of the temples. Nowadays it is not seen wild in the immediate neighbourhood of Bangkok, but in 1778, in Dr. Koenig's journal (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 2(3, 1894), we read :-" November 8th: The Crocodiles swam in front of our boat; they often made a dreadful noise, but the people said we had nothing to fear from them here, they are only dangerous further inland . . . Nov. 27th : The people offered the flesh of a big crocodile for sale . . . the tail was best, and had no smell at all. The King of Siam pays for every crocodile . . . in order to extirpate these animals. Therefore the crocodiles are afraid of any boat here, but higher up the country they attack people and eat them;" and such other entries. Size. The length to which these crocodiles attain is often a matter of discussion, and it is difficult to estimate when they are seen in the water. One from Ayuthia, Siam, I measured was 3*04 metres (10 feet). One shot by Mr. Owen at Serangoon, Singapore, measures as it is now, in the Raffles Museum, 4*7 metres (15 feet 6 inches) ; but Mr. Owen tells m e it was 16 feet in total length in the flesh. The largest I have seen in Kedah, lying dead on the river-bank, was about 3*67 metres (12 feet). Col. Frowd Walker, C.M.G., has in his house at Taiping the skull of a crocodile from Perak which measures in total length about 812 m m . (2 feet 8 inches); he tells m e the animal was 5*48 metres (18 feet) long, and a noted man-eater, knocking people off the bathing-stages by the river's side. Mr. J. P. Rodger tells m e that about the year 1886 tbe Government reward was paid for a crocodile killed at Kuala Selangor 5*64 metres (18 feet 6 inches) long. In the Taiping Museum there is a strip of skin, from the snout to the end of the tail, of a crocodile killed at Matang, Perak, presented to the museum by Mr. E. Wagner, and which, Mr. L. Wray informed me, measured 7*51 metres (24 feet 8 inches). The British Museum Catalogue says " the largest specimen in the collection measures 5*25 metres ; " and in reference to a skull from Bawisaul, Bengal, says, in a footnote : " Stated by the donor to have pertained to a specimen 33 feet long, and measuring 13 feet 8 inches round the body." Dimensions of skulls :- 1st. From Tacheen river, Siam, now in Siamese Museum. Total leuerth (without lower ] , Lftn1 ,n£, -,,,. . P v J- about 901 m m . (2 ft. 11| in.). Breadth in front of orbits 1 , , ... ,, j, ,, . x ,1.11. \ r about 444 m m . (1 ft. 54 in.). (following curve) .... J * ' |