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Nile Crocodile, illustration from 1898

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English: Identifier: zoologyofegypt01ande

Title: Zoology of Egypt
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, John, 1833-1900 Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. Fishes of the Nile De Winton, William Edward
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London, B. Quaritch
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Z o fc o -• 35 O O CEOCODILUS NILOTICUS. 11 one of the plates of the anterior row has been suppressed. In every case a few keeledplates of varying size are arranged around the posterior nuchals, and in one instance an additional pair of plates occurs, giving rise to the formula I. The first row of dorsal plates is generally well defined and follows the formula 3 + 8,but instances occur in which some of the dorsal plates in this row are not developedin continuous transverse series. These plates, notwithstanding this abnormality, I haveregarded as dorsal. The statements made by travellers and other observers regarding the length of thecrocodile of the Nile are most varied. In an Egyptian tale 1, as old as the fourthdynasty, we learn that a crocodile seven cubits long merited the term great beingapplied to it. Herodotus, on the other hand, gives seventeen cubits as the length;whereas iElian2 affirms that during the reign of Psammetichus one had been seen25 cubits, and another, in the t

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