SEA OTTER. 
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SYNONYMES. 
Mustela Lutris. Linn. 
Sea Beaver. KrascheninikofF, Hist. Kamsk. (Grieve’s Trans.), p. 131. Ann. 17 64. 
Mustela Lutris. Schreber, Saiigetliiere, p. 465, fig. t. 128. 
Lutra Marina. Erxleben, Syst. Ann. 1777. 
“ “ Steller, Nov. Com. Petrop., vol. ii. p. 267, t. 16. 
Sea Otter. Cook’s Third Voyage, vol. ii. p. 295. Ann. 1784. 
“ “ Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 88. Ann. 1784. 
Lutra Stelleri. Lesson, Manual, pp. 156, 423. 
Sea Otter. Meares, Voyage, pp. 241, 260. Ann. 1790. 
“ “ Menzies, Philos. Trans., p. 385. Ann. 1796. 
Enhydra Marina. Fleming, Phil. Zoob, vol. ii. p. 187. Ann. 1822. 
Enydris Stelleri. Fischer, Synopsis, p. 228. 
Lutra Marina. Harlan, Fauna, p. 72. 
The Sea Otter. Godman’s Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 228. 
Enydris Marina. Licht., Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter Saiigethiere. 
Berlin, 1827-1834. Tafel xlix. 
Lutra (Enhydra) Marina. Rich., Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 59. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head, small in proportion to the size of the body ; ears, short, conical, 
and covered with hair ; eyes, rather large ; lips, thick ; mouth, wide, and 
furnished with strong and rather large teeth ; fore-feet, webbed nearly to 
the nails, and much like those of the common Otter, five claws on each. 
Hind-legs and thighs, short, and better adapted for swimming than in other 
mammalia except the seals ; hind-feet, flat and webbed, the toes being con- 
nected by a strong granulated membrane, with a skin skirting the outward 
toe ; all the webs of the feet are thickly clothed with glossy hairs about a 
line in length. 
One of the specimens referred to by Mr. Menzies (the account of which 
is published in the Philosophical Transactions) measured eight inches 
across the hind-foot ; the tongue was four inches long and rounded at the 
end, with a slight fissure, giving the tip a bifid appearance. 
The tail is short, broad, depressed, and pointed at the end ; the hair 
both on the body and tail is of two kinds— the longer hairs are silky, 
glossy, and not very numerous, the fur or shorter hair exceedingly soft and 
fine. 
COLOUR. 
The cheeks generally present a cast of grayish or silvery colour, which 
extends along the sides and under the throat ; there is a lightish circle 
