100 ODOBJENUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



round, prominent ears, small, pointed, in ward- curving tusks, no 

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

 tail, possibly intended to represent hind limbs. 



Pontoppidon, 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 1761, 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 u Natursystem," 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-Boss, Marten's Spitzbergen, &c. 1675, t. P, fig. &. (Reduced 



three-tenths. ) " 



turned forward. The general outline of the body indicates 

 the obese form of the Walrus 5 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, Planten en 

 Mineraalen, volgens liet Samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naaw- 

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



t Des Ritters Carl von Linue* Koniglich Schwedischen Leibarztes, &c. &c. 

 vollstandiges Natursystem nach der zwolften lateinischen Ausgabe und nach 

 Anleitung des holliindischen Houttuynischen Werks mit einer ausfiihrliclien 

 Erklarung ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statius Miiller, etc. Erster 

 Theil. Nurnberg, 1773. PL xxix, fig. 2. This is one of the few original 

 plates added by Miiller to Houttuyn's series 



