| Show WAYS OF crocodiles some of talo Sau rianA it anra ki ex veo ditl r As artemus barll says alio craco 1110 ilia ii 14 not handsome but lie hv has li jsn ti very open and some ol of the I 1 habits i of llin ai linial ns as lately tt lr liy hy ii in 1 Nili 1 aulry irr n aio re exceeding interesting traveling ill fit lio ito in fanu iry IMs li 1 litno now lall 1 ill 0 0 T ai 4 of 0 the alil ail n 0 croul a nest neat willell was ivas uvo five or six nix iipp 03 from the kink banic of tile 11 a gogonA osona a tributary of tho lio oot ool lit in east lor l or 1 space of toiuo foot feet in diameter a input hall bad boon been cleared ol 01 0 f plants it in it a circle apparently liy by the croco 1110 having wheeled around several iov cral birli annn 1 A fow branches hall 1 ten in laid till hero und tind there lint but there was no nest building proper thu the nest so called lay open to tile still with tho the exception of a couple of bushes at ono part four pits dup tit in tho the hard dry ground ff round about two feet coot obliquely down livid jirld tho r rass s about eighty five alv or itil lety in choso brokon in rhe diw natives vcr told tho traveler aliat tho crocodile having selected and prepared a spot pit tit it lay call rill ys about twenty or twenty ilvo ggs egge ill i n it it which it covers with earth cart li next day it a pit and so BO on from ilia commencement it remains in ili the nest and it bleeps there till tile biatch ing of tile young which appear in about two men months tits when tho lie heavy a vy ra rain lit period sets seta in tile alio 0 laciny occurs wily only unco once in the year about tho the end of january tan or beginning ot of february I 1 XI disturbed tho croco atlo on oil I 1 its ts eggs a and till ibave I 1 it t 1 drop I rop I 1 into it to tio tho iva ter lint but from tho the look lie ho got of it it to lo be the tits rul garIt n so common coi ninon tn n east africa Dem orests II 11 I 1 |
