88 
Asta. 
Europe. 
360. Sea. 
DeEScRLPTION. 
LESS & RyVOe DE R: 
the docks and bridges of towns, where it proves a ufeful enemy to 
KAES 
It is befides very deftructive to the Tortoife ; whofe eggs it fcrapés 
out of the fand and devours: and eats the frefh-water mufcles; whofe 
fhells are found in great abundance at the mouth of their holes. It 
is capable of being made tame, and domefticated f. 
The fpecies is fpread in 4a, along the banks of the Yaik, in the 
Orenburg government f. None are feen in Sibiria; but appear 
again near the rivers which run into the mar. Its fur is in thofe 
parts very valuable, and efteemed as next in ‘beauty to the Sable. It 
is either hunted with dogs or taken in traps. In Europe it is found 
in Poland and Lithwania, where it is named Nurek; and the Germans 
call it Nurtz. It is alfo an inhabitant of Finland: the natives call it 
Tichuri ; the Swedes, Maenk §, a name carried into America by fome 
Szuedifh colonift, end with a flight variation is ftill retained. 
Hift. Quad, N° 230. 
Lutra Marina, Kalan. Nov. Com. Petrop. ii. 367. tab. xvi. 
Caftor Marin, Hit. Kamt/chatka, 444. 
Sea Otter, Muller, 57, 58\|.—Ley. Mus. 
TTER. With hazel irides: upper jaw long, and broader than 
the lower: nofe black: ears erect, conic, fmall: whifkers long 
and white: in the upper jaw fix, in the lower four, cutting teeth: 
erinders broad: fore legs thick; on each four toes, covered with 
hair, and webbed : the hind feet refemble exaétly thofe of a “Seal: the 
toes divided by a ftrong fhagreened membrane, with a fkin fkirting 
the external fide of the outmoft toe, in the manner of fome water fowl. 
* Kalm, ii. 61. + Law/on, 122. 1 Dr. Pallas. § Fauna Suec. N° 13. 
| I here infert the fynonyms ; for in the Synopfis of Quadrupeds, following Linnges 
and Brifén, 1 confound the Brajflian Otter of Marcgrave with this animal, 
The 
