SEA OTTER, 
of Buffon is quite a different animal from the 
Sea Otter; being, as he thinks, " the very 
same with la Petite Loutre d'Eau D')uce de 
Cayenne, described and figured by M. De 
Buffon, probably from a young animal." 
Unquestionably, there is, in Pennant's de- 
scription of the Sea Otter, much more of 
certainty than in the account given by Buffon , 
•who, though he says no more than we have 
seen, under the article which professes to treat 
of this animal, has nevertheless told us, in the 
Supplement to his Description of the Comm.on 
Otter, " that there are three species of Otters 
in Cayenne : the black, which weighs forty 
or fifty pounds ; the yellowish, which weighs 
twenty or twenty-five pounds ; and the small 
greyish kind, which weighs not above three 
or four pounds." He adds, that the Small 
Fresh- Water Otter of Cayenne," evidently 
that which is referred to by Pennant, " is the 
third species of those above mentioned." I'o us 
it appears, that the Sea Otter is probably the first. 
The account given by Pennant, whose ex- 
celle nt figure we have adopted, is as follows — 
The 
