On the Occurrence of Schlegel's Gavial in the Malay Peninsular

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Excerpt from On the Occurrence of Schlegel's Gavial in the Malay Peninsular: Together With Papers on the Crave Dwellers of Perak Tin Mining in Perak, Chapter IV Teeth Blacking Amongst the Malays Gutta Cultivation Exposed Foundations at Perak Museum the "Rice Sapper" Beetle Pest on Gapis Estate Report on Perak Museu A Gharial-like Crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, described by Salomon Midler in 1838, was, until lately, believed to be peculiar to Borneo. In 1890, however, its occurrence in Sumatra was recorded by Max Weber (Zool. Ergebn., p. 176). The Malay Peninsula may now be added to its habitat. A few months ago the British Museum received from Mr. L. Wray, Curator of the Perak Government Museum, a fine half-grown specimen, with the following remarks: - "The specimen was caught at Pulau Tiga, in the Perak river, in June, 1895, and I kept it in a pond until the end of December, when it was killed. For months it would eat nothing but a few small fish, but during the latter portion of the time it would eat freely of any meat or fish given to it. It also became quite tame and would remain at the surface of the water with its head on the bank while people stood near it. "So far as I have been able to ascertain no Crocodile belonging to the Gavial group has ever been recorded from the Malayan Peninsula, so that the following particulars will be of interest. "I first heard of the occurrence of a Gavial in the State of Perak in 1889, and in the same year Mr. Cecil Wray, the then Acting Superintendent of Lower Perak, obtained a skull from the Perak river, and sent it to the Perak Museum, - the animal was seven feet long. A second was caught in the Kinta river, near Batu Gajah, in 1893 or 1894. It was secured by Captain H. C. Metcalfe, of the Perak Sikhs, and the skin is now in his possession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.