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ODOB^NUS EOSMARUS ATLANTIC WALEUS. 



round, prominent ears, small, pointed, inward- cur\ing tusks, no 

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

 tail, possibly intended to represent liind limbs. 



Pontoppidon, in Lis ISratm-al History of jSTorway, published 

 in 1751, gave a figure of the Walrus in which the resemblance 

 consisted mainly in the presence of two huge tusks in the upjDer 

 jaw. Only the head, neck, and upx)er 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 17G1, gave a very fair figure of the skull and os 

 j)enis of a Walrus. As P. L. S. Miiller, in 1773, used Houttuyn's 

 plates in his " Natursystem," these figures are there again called 

 into service, to which was added a noteworthy reiDresentation 

 of the animal.t This represents an apparently young Walrus 

 as lying jiartly on the side, with the diminutive hind feet 



Fig. 11." Wall-Boss, Marten's Spitzbergen, &c. 1675, t. P, fig. 6. (Reduced 



tliree-tenths. ) " 



turned fortmrd. The general outline of the body indicates 

 the obese form of the Walrus; but the head, with its small, 

 short tusks, has scarcely the faintest resemblance to the head 

 of that animal. 



* Natuurlyke Historie 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 Linu6 Koniglicli Schwedisclien Leibarztes, &c. &c. 

 vollstandiges Natursystem nach der zwoKten lateinisclien Ausgabe und nacb 

 Anleitung des hollaudisclien Houttuyniscben Werks mit einer ausfiibrliclien 

 Erkliiruug ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statins Miiller, etc. Erster 

 Tbeil. Niiniberg, 1773. PI. xxix, fig. 2. Tbis is one of tbe few original 

 plates added by Miiller to Houttuyn^s series 



