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O T T E R. 



Class I. 



XI. OTTER. Six cutting teeth, two canine, in each jaw. 

 Five toes on each foot •, each toe palmated. 



ig. Otter. Le Loutre, Be/on 26. />/. 27 

 Lutra. The otter. Rail fyn. 



quad. 187. 

 Gre-w^s Muf. 16. 

 Morton's Noriha}npt. 444. 

 Sib. Scot. 10. 

 Gejher quad. 687. 

 Lutra caftanei coloris. Brif- 

 fon quad. 20 1. 



De Buffon, Tom. vii. 134. Tab, 



II. xiii. 322. 

 Muilcla lutra. Lin.fyfi. 66. 

 Pont op. Nor^v. 2. 27. 

 Lutra digitis omnibus sequali- 



bus. Faun, Suec, 12. 

 Br. Zool. 32. Syn. quad. No. 



138. 



Bescrip. fy^HE nfual length of this animal is three feet 

 X three inches, including the tail, which is 

 fixteen inches long. 



The head and nofe are broad and flat, the neck 

 fhort, and equal in thicknefs to the head : the body- 

 long : the tail broad at the bafe, taper* off to a 

 point at the end, and is the whole way compreff- 

 ed horizontally. The eyes are very fmall, and 

 placed nearer the nofe than is ufual in quadru- 

 peds : the ears extre/nely fhort, and their orifice 

 narrow : the opening of the mouth is fmall, the 

 lips mufcular, and. capable of being brought very 



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