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Jiya, ct Cariguibeiu Marcgrave Mu ft el a Lutris. M. pi antis pal- 175. Sea. 
Brajil, 234. math pilofis, cauda corpora qua- 
Lutra B.aiilienfis Railfyn. quad, druplo breviorc. Lin.fyjfl. 66. 
1S9. Lutra atri colons, macula fub 
Loutre 011 Cariguibeju des Mar - gutttire flava. Brijjon quad. 202. 
chats, III. 306. Lutra marina, Kalan. Nov. Com. 
Guachi, Gumiila Orenoque, III. Petrop. II. 367. tab. xvi. 
239. Sea otter, bift: Kamtcbatka, 122. 
Le Saracovienne de Baffin, xiii. Muller's voj. 37, 58. 
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D. with a black nofe : upper jaw longer and broader 
than the lower : long white whifkers : irides hazel: 
ears Email, eredt, conic : in each jaw four cutting 
teeth; the grinders broad, adapted for breaking 
and comminuting cruilaceous animals, and fheli 
fifh: ikin thick : hair thick and long, excefll vely 
black and glofly: beneath that a foft down : color 
fometimes varies to filvery: legs thick and fliort: toes 
covered with hair, and joined by a web : the hind 
feet exactly like thofe of a feal, and have a mem¬ 
brane Hurting the outfide of the exterior toe, like 
that of a goofe : length, from nofe to tail, four feet 
two inches ^ tail thirteen inches, flat, fulled: of hair 
in the middle; fharp pointed. The biggeil of thefe 
animals weigh feventy or eighty pounds. 
Inhabits, in vail abundance, the coafts of Kami -- 
fchatka , and the parrs of America difcovered by 
the Ruffians oppofite to it: met with again in a moil 
remote part of the continent of America , in the 
Brajilian * rivers, and that of Orenoque : are moil 
harmlefs animals •, moil afredtionate to their young, 
* Thofe of Bra/J have a yellow fpot uader the chfn. 
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