XI. OTTER. 
9. OTTER. 
DEscRIP. 
O° TATOETRE » Coal 
Six cutting teeth, two canine, in each jaw. 
Five toes on each foot ; each toe palmated. 
Le Loutre, Beloz 26. pl. 27 De Buffon, Tom. vii. 134. ‘Tab. 
Lutra. The otter. Rai fyx. 12. XU ygaee 
quad. 187. Muftela lutra. Lin. fpft. 66. 
Grew’s Mu/. 16. Pontop. Norw. 2.27. _ 
Morton’s Northampt. 444. Lutra digitis omnibus aquali- 
S726. Scot. 10. bus. Faun. Suec. 12. 
Ge/ner quad. 687. Br. Zool. 32. Syn. quad. No. 
Lutra caftanei coloris. Bri/- 138. | 
Jou quad. 201. 
Brit. Dyfrei Germ. Otter, Fifch Otter 
Fren. Le Loutre Dut. Otter 
fal. Lodra, Ledria, Lontra. Swed. Utter 
Span. Nutria Dan. Odder 
Port. 
HE ufual length of this animal is three feet 
three inches, including the tail, which is 
fixteen inches long. 
The head and nofe are broad and flat, the neck 
fhort, and equal in thicknefs tothe head: the body 
long: the tatl broad at the bafe, tapers off toa 
point at the end, and is the whole way comprefi- 
ed horizontally. The eyes are very fmall, and 
placed nearer the nofe than is ufual in quadru- 
peds: the ears extremely fhort, and their orifice 
narrow: the opening of the mouth is fmall, the 
tes muicular, and capable of being brought very 
clofe 
