WEIGHT OF OTTERS. 



A STUFFED otter now in my possession, and which 

 was killed on the Wye, weighed 271b. when in 

 the flesh, and seemed a very large specimen. An 

 otter's skin, however, that I saw last autumn in a 

 furrier's shop at Bergen, in Norway, must have 

 belonged to an immense specimen, as the skin 

 measured 4ft. 2in. in length and did not seem to 

 have been stretched. This skin was unusually 

 dark- coloured, and the animal was, I believe, killed 

 in one of the tributary streams running into the 

 Sogne Fjord. 



