98 ODOB^ENUS EOSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



was well worthy of repetition, being incomparably better than 

 any other made prior to those taken from the living specimen 

 received at the Zoological Gardens in London in 1853. 



Purchas, in his " Pilgrimes,"* gives some very interesting, 

 and in many respects excellent, representations of the Walrus, 

 to which I find no reference in the writings of von Baer or Gray, 

 or, in fact, anywhere. In the principal of these figures, the 

 general form of the Walrus is more correctly delineated than 

 in any figure, except Gerard's, that appeared prior to 1857. 

 Barring its facial expression, and the presence of what seems 

 to be a mane, it is excellent. The general outline of both the 

 body and the limbs are surprisingly truthful, as is likewise the 

 attitude. The hind feet are turned forward, and the size and 

 position of the tusks are correctly represented. The face, how- 

 ever, has a most ludicrous half-leonine, half-human expression, 

 which is heightened by the addition of an ear having the gen- 

 eral form, of a human ear. In addition to this, the creature is 



Werke gehort uncl nur von dem Herausgeber oder von den Kaufern einigen 

 Exemplaren beigebunden ist. Ich habe nicht Gelegenheit gehabt, das hier 

 genannte Werke zu sehen und darnach zu bestimmen, ob das Kupfer zu dem 

 Buche gehort, vermuthe aber eines Theils aus der angegebenen Seltenheit 

 seines Vorkommens und andern Theils aus dem Umstande, dass die Figur 

 in mehreren Werken des 17. Jahrhunderts wiederholt wurde, dass sie damals 

 bekannter war, als im 18ten . Ja, ich besitze selbst ein colorirtes Blatt, das ich 

 in einer Sammlung naturhistorischer Abbildungen in Leipzig aus dem Nach- 

 lasse eines Naturalienhandlers kaufte und welches, zwar nicht derOriginal- 

 Kupferstich, doch eine Copie desselben ist. Die Farbe, welche beide Thiere 

 auf meinem Blatte haben, ist ganz iibereinstimmend mit der Farbe des 

 jungen Wallrosses. das hier zu sehen war. Da nun die erwachsenen Wall- 

 rosse in der Regel heller sind, so ist es mir wahrscheinlich, dass auch die 

 Colorirung damals nach dem jungen Thiere gemacht ist." VON BAER, I. c., 

 pp. 128, 129. 



Gray says : "In a small quarto tract, called the ' Histoire du Pays nomine" 

 Spitsberghe, e'crit par H. G. A., Amsterdam, chez Hessel Gerrard A.', 1613, a 

 plate at page 20 contains an excellent figure of the Morse and its young, ' ad 

 vivum delineatum ab Hesselo G. A.' This figure was repeated in De Laet's 

 'Arner. Descript.', p. 28, 1633, by Jonston, < Pisces', t. 44, in 1657, and by 

 Shaw, 'Zoology', t. 68*, from Jonston." Gray copies this figure with the 

 following title: "Fig. 9. Walrms. Ad vivum delineatum ab Hesselo G. A. 

 Histoire de Spitsberghe, by H. G. A., 1613. Another edition, same date. 

 (Reduced four-sevenths. )" Proc. Zool Soc. Land., 1853, p. 115. 



It would thus appear that either Gerard's figure was published simulta- 

 neously in several different works, since that mentioned by Gray is not the 

 one cited by von Baer, or else that, as von Baer suspected, and as seems 

 more probable, the plate did not really belong to the work von Baer cites, 

 but merely happened to be bound with it. 



*Vol. iii, pp. 472-473 bis. 



