LUTRA VULGARIS. 



119 



CARNIVORA. 



MUSTELIDJE. 



Fig. 43. 



Nat. size. Fens, Cambridgeshire. 



LUTEA VULGARIS. Common Otter. 



Mustela Lutra, 



Lutra antiqua, 

 Loutre, 



Potamotherium Valletonii, 

 Lutra vutgaris, 



M. DE SERRES and DUBRUEIL, Mem. du Museum, 

 torn, xviii. p. 334. PL 17, fig. 14 and 15. 



H. v. MEYER, Palseologica, p. 55. 



CROIZET and JOBERT, Ossem. Foss. du Puy-de- 

 Dome, p. 89. 



Geoffrey St. Hilaire, cited in De Blainville's Osto- 

 graphie. 



OWEN, Report of Brit. Association, 1842. 



THE fen-lands of Cambridgeshire, as I am informed by 

 my friend Professor Sedgwick, to whom I am also indebted 

 for the opportunity of describing and figuring the subject of 

 the above engraving (fig. 43), are chiefly composed of turf- 

 bog, occasionally alternating with marl and clay containing 

 fresh-water shells of living species ; they commence a little 

 below Cambridge and are irregularly expanded on both 



