WALRUS, 
Div. III. Pinnated Quadrupeds : having fin-like 
feet: fore legs buried deep in the fkin; 
hind legs pointing quite backwards. 
With two great tufks in the upper jaw, pointing XL, WAU 
downwards. 
Four grinders on both fides, above and below. 
No cutting teeth. 
Five paimated toes on each foot. 
Rofmarus, Gefner Pifc, an. Klein Qdobenus. .La vat:he marine, 363, Arctic* 
quad. 92. BriJJbn quad. 30, 
Walrus, Mors, Rofmarus, Worm. Trichechus .Rofmarus. T. den- 
Muf. 289. Raiijyn. quad. 191. ^ tibus laniariis fuperioribus ex- 
Sea-horfe, or Morfe, Marten's lertis, Lin. jyft. 49. 
Spitzberg, 107, 182. Egede Green- Le Morfe, le Bujfon, xiii. 338, 
■land, 82, tab* liv, Br, Muf. JLfi. Muf. 
Sea-Cow, Crantz Green!. I. 125. 
W. with a round head : fmall mouth : very thick 
lips, covered above and below with pellucid briftles. 
as thick as a fcraw: fmall fiery eyes: two fmall ori¬ 
fices Inftead of ears : fhort neck : body thi ck in the. 
middle, tapering towards the tail: fkin thick, wrin¬ 
kled, with fhort brownifh hairs thinly difperfed : 
legs fhort 3 five toes on each, all conneded by webs, 
and fmall nails on each : the hind feet very broad 3 
each leg loofely articulated: the hind legs gene¬ 
rally extended on a line with the body : tail very 
fhort: penis long : length, from nofe to tail, fofne- 
times eighteen feet, and ten or twelve round in the 
thickeft 
