[Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 by John Lort Stokes]@TWC D-Link book
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2

CHAPTER 2
9/47

Length of lower jaw, 2 feet.
Teeth in both jaws, vary in size, and are variously disposed, as will be seen above; in upper jaw on each side of maxillary bone, 18, 2 incisors.
Ditto in lower jaw, 15, 2 incisors.

The largest teeth are 1 1/2 inch in length.

The two lower incisors are stronger and longer than the upper, and project through two holes in front part of upper jaw.
Breadth across the animal, from extreme of one fore foot, across the shoulders to the other side, 5 feet 2 inches.

The fore feet have each five perfect toes; the three inner or first, have long horny nails, slightly curved; the two outer toes have no nails, nor are they webbed.
The third and fourth toes are deeply webbed, allowing a wide space between them, which is apparent even in their passive state.

The hind feet have four long toes; the first two are webbed as far as the first joint, and the others are strongly webbed to the apex of last joint, the last or outer toe has no nail.
From the apex of tail, a central highly notched ridge runs up about midway of it, and there splits into two branches, which pass up on each side of the spine over the back, as far as the shoulders, gradually diminishing in height to their termination.
A central ridge runs down from the nape of the neck over the spinous processes of the vertebrae (being firmly attached to them by strong ligaments) as far down as the sacrum, diminishing to its termination likewise.
CONTENTS OF ITS STOMACH.
All the alligator's stomach contained was about fourteen pounds of pebbles, some of them measuring four inches in diameter.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books