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Confidered in a commercial view the prefent fpecies is highly important, 

 fince its fur is one of the richeft and moft valuable hitherto difcovered, and 

 affords to the Ruffian nobility and to the Turks, a principal article of their 

 magnificent drefs. It is however chiefly the larger variety of this fpecies 

 which is moft efteemed, the fur of the one here figured being not fo cx- 

 quifitely fine as that of the larger fort. 



This animal is principally found about the fliores of Kamtfchatka, and the 

 intermediate iflands between Afia and America. Like the reft of its genus, 

 it feeds on fifti, fwims with great ftrength and celerity, and is remarkable for 

 a veiy ftrong attachment to its young ; a particular in which not only the 

 animals of this genus, but even thofe of the cetaceous tribe at leaft equal, if 

 not exceed moft other animals. The colour of the Sea Otter is a very deep 

 blackifh-brown. Its general length from the nofe to the tip of the tail is. 

 fomewhat more than four feet. 



TURDUS 



