238 
OTTER. 
XXIV. OT¬ 
TER. 
I7g. Great¬ 
er. 
Six cutting teeth, two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes on each foot ^ each toe connected by a 
ftrong web. 
Lutra Agricola An. Subter. 482. ter, Faun.fuec. No. 12. 
Gefner quad. 687. Rail fyn. quad. Lutra caftanei colons Brijfon quad . 
187. 201, 
Wydra Rzaczinjki Polon. 221. Le Loutre, Belon Aquat. 26. de 
Otter Klein quad. 91. Buffon , vii. 134. tab. xi. 
Muftela Lutra. M. plantis. pal- Otter, Br. Zool. I. 67. Br. Zoot. 
matis nudis, cauda corpore di- illujlr. tab. c. 
midio breviore. Lin.JyJl . 66. Ut- 
O. with fhort ears : eyes placed near the nofe : lips 
thick : whifkers large : whole color of a deep brown, 
except two fmall fpots each fide the nofe, and ano¬ 
ther beneath the chin : legs fhort and thick, and 
loofely joined to the body; capable of being 
brought on a line with the body, and performing 
the part of fins *, each toe connected to the other by 
a broad ftrong web : length twenty-three inches •, 
tail fixteen. 
Inhabits all parts of Europe , N. and N, E. of 
Afia , even as far as Kamtfchatka ^ abounds in North 
America , particularly in Canada , where the moft 
valuable furs of this kind are produced : dwells in 
the banks of rivers; burrows, forming the en¬ 
trance of its hole beneath the watery works up¬ 
wards towards the furface of the earth, and makes 
a fmall orifice, or air hole, in the midft of fome 
bufh: fwims and dives with great eafe *, very de- 
ftrudtive to fifh: if they fail, makes excursions on 
land. 
