Wuhu, Apr. 11.
sweiho, twenty Li south of junction of two small rivers, is now and has been for many years the home of the China alligator and they are caught in Tsinghsweiho the proper season.
When Roy Chapman Andrews was fon one of his first expeditions to Mongolia he sent two of his party to Wuhu to collect among other things specimens of alligators which he had were to be found In this neighbourhood. They got seven vary~ ing In size from about two feet to five, Some time later a. visiting Amerienn professor got two and since then on more than one occasion others have been found. Last month two were caught at Tsinghsweiho, one of these, five feet long, has been sent to the University of Amoy. The other: stil is in Wuhu and is the smallest T have seen, not being more than fifteen finches tong.
Tu the late autumn, when the water is low, the alligator will burrow into the mud and hibernate all. winter. He comes out in the spring when the weather becomes warm and February or the beginning of March is the best Time to find them, The people here 0 far have found no use for them and they are glad when they are caught a8 they say the alligator sometime weakens the dykes as he digs himself in, and in the summer time they are apt to get in the way of a Ashorman's net, I have not heard that they are dangerous, but a five foot alligator is a bit formidable 1ook~ ing and there Is great strength in his tall.
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