Alligator
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See also Reptile. [Illustration from period source]
[Illustration from PicDic]
Illustration/s from Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[1]]:
Pennsic Traceable Art Project:
Parker's Heraldry:[edit | edit source]
Alligator, and Crocodile. The only case of either of these borne in English arms is, > Gules, a chevron argent between three alligators …. –HITCHCOCK. > Per chief gules and or, in base an olive-tree eradicated and fructed proper, in chief the head and fore-legs of a crocodile issuant proper–DALBIAC, Bedford. [[2]]
Precedents:[edit | edit source]
From the September 2004 LoAR: For alligators and crocodiles there is not a significant difference between the statant/passant and couchant/dormant postures. [2004]