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CANADA OTTER. 
ing countries : Europe 1, Island of Trinidad 1, Guyana 1, Brazil 1, Kamt- 
schatka 1, Java 1, Malay 1, Pondicherry 1, The Cape of Good Hope 1, 
and North America 2. 
liUTRA CANADENSIS. — Sabine. 
Canada Otter. 
PLATE LI. — Male. Natural Size. 
L. vellere nitido, saturate fusco ; mento gulaque fusco albis ; L. vul- 
gare major. 
CHARACTERS. 
Larger than the European Otter, L. Vulgaris. Dark glossy brown ; 
chin and throat dusky white ; jive feet in length. 
SYNONYMES. 
Loutrk de Canada, Buffon, vol. iiii,, p. 326 , t. 44. 
C0.MMON Otter, Pennant, Arctic Zoolog., vol. i., p. 653 . 
Land Otter, Warden’s Hist. U. S., p. 206 . 
Lutra Canadensis, Sabine, Franklin’s Journ., p. 653 . 
“ Brasiliensis, Harlan, Fauna, p. * 72 . 
Glodman, Nat. Hist., vol. i., p. 222. 
“ Canadensis, Dekay, Zook, p. 1., p. 39. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head, large and nearly of a globular form ; nose, blunt and naked ; 
lips, thick ; ears, round, .slightly ovate, and closer together than in L. 
Vulgaris, clothed densely with short hair on both surfaces ; body, long^ 
cylindrical; neck, long; legs, short and stout; mou,stache.s, very’ rigid’ 
like bristles ; soles of the feet, thinly clothed with hair between the toes, 
tubercles at the roots of the claws, naked ; feet, webbed to the nails ;’ 
Tail, stout, gradually tapering toward the extremity, depressed at the base, 
continuing flattened through half its length ; at the base there are two 
oval glands. The longer hairs covering the fur, are glossy and rigid ; 
fur, soft, dense, and nearly as fine as that of the Beaver, continuing through 
the whole extent of the body, even to the extremity of the tail, but shorter 
on the forehead and extremities. 
