Abstract
CHINESE ALLIGATORS.—Two fine examples of the alligator of the Yang-tse-kiang, of the discovery of which we spoke in our issue of February 13, 1879 (vol. xix. p. 351), have recently been received by Dr. Peters for the Zoological Museum of Berlin. There can be no doubt, we understand, that M. Fauyel is quite right, and that this crocodilian is an undoubted alligator—being the first of this genus which has been found to occur in the Old World. It will be recollected that of the remarkable Chondrostean genus of fishes, Polyodon, one of the two known species is also found in the Yang-tse, while the other is confined to the Mississippi.
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