100 ODOB^NUS EOSMAEUS ATLANTIC WALEUS. 



round, prominent ears, small, pointed, inward- curving tusks, no 

 hind feet, and a body tapering to a doubly emarginate fish-like 

 tail, possibly intended to represent hind limbs. 



Poutoppidon, in his Natural History of Norway, published 

 in 1751, gave a figure of the Walrus in which the resemblance 

 consisted mainly in the presence of two huge tusks in the upper 

 jaw. Only the head, neck, and upper portion of the body are 

 represented; but the general outline, as far as seen, is sug- 

 gestive of the animal it was intended to represent. 



Houttuyn,* in 1701, gave a very fair figure of the skull and os 

 penis of a Walrus. As P. L. S. Miiller, in 1773, used Houttuyn's 

 plates in his " Natursy stern," these figures are there again called 

 into service, to which was added a noteworthy representation 

 of the animal.t This represents an apparently young Walrus 

 as lying partly on the side, with the diminutive hind feet 



FIG. 11." Wall-Ross, Marten's Spitzbergeu, &c. 1675, t. P, fig. &. (Eeduced 



three-tenths. ) " 



turned forward. The general outline of the body indicates 

 the obese form of the Walrus; but the head, with its small, 

 short tusks, has scarcely the faintest resemblance to the head 

 of that animal. 



* Natuurlyke Historic of uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Plaiiten en 

 Mineraalen, volgeus het Samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naaw- 

 keurige Af beeldingen. Eerste Deels, tweede Stuk, 1761, pi. xi, figg. 1, 4. 



tDes Eitters Carl von Linne" Kouiglich Schwedischen Leibarztes, &c. &c. 

 vollstiiudiges Natursystem nach der zwolften lateinischen Ausgabe und uach 

 Anleitung des holliindischen Houttuynischen Werks mit einer ausfiihrliclieu 

 Erkliirung ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statins Miiller, etc. Erster 

 Theil. Niirnberg, 1773. PI. sxix, fig. 2. This is one of the few original 

 plates added by Miiller to Honttuyn's series 



