342 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Attitudes and Figures of the Morse. 



ill 1 /()•'>, ill the tenth voluaie of his 'Histoire Naturelle,' t. 54, gives 

 the figure of a male, evidently from a stuffed skin, exactly resem- 



Fig. 8. Le Morse. Buffon, xiii. t. 54 <? . 1765. 

 (Reduced two-fifths.) 



bling the common Seal in form and position ; and this figure has been 

 repeatedly copied. 



In a small quarto tract, called the 'Histoire du Pays nomme' 

 Spitsberghe, ecrit par H. G. A., Amsterdam, chez Hessel Ger- 

 rard A.,' 1613, a plate at page 20 contains an excellent figure of the 

 Morse and its young, " ad vi\-um dehneatum ab Hesselo G. A." 



Fig. 9. TValruss. Ad vivum delineatum ab Hesselo G. A. 



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



(Reduced four-sevenths.) 



This figure was repeated in Lact's 'Amer. Descript.' p. 28, 1633, by 

 Jonston, 'Pisces,' t. 44, in 1657, and by Shaw, 'Zoology,' t. 68*, 

 from Jonston. 



In Cook's last 'Voyage ' there is a fine plate (t. 52), after a draw- 

 ing by Westall, of a boat's party attacking a drove of Sea-horses ; the 

 centre animal of this group is copied, under the name of the x\rctic 

 Walrus, by Shaw, 'Zoology,' t. 6S. This figure also represents the 

 animal in its natural position, with the hinder legs bent under the 



