Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . end of the snout 5. Distance from the top of the head to the crown of the teeth .... 5. It is not necessary to describe particularly the lowerjaw of this animal, we have only to refer to fig. 1st,to be convinced of its exact resemblance to the Ma-natus Senegalensis; and figures 2nd and 3rd comparedwith figures 4th and 5th of the cranium of this animal, (inCuvier Anim. foss. vol. 4th,) afford the same results; an-other difference distinguishing this
Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . end of the snout 5. Distance from the top of the head to the crown of the teeth .... 5. It is not necessary to describe particularly the lowerjaw of this animal, we have only to refer to fig. 1st,to be convinced of its exact resemblance to the Ma-natus Senegalensis; and figures 2nd and 3rd comparedwith figures 4th and 5th of the cranium of this animal, (inCuvier Anim. foss. vol. 4th,) afford the same results; an-other difference distinguishing this animal as well as the They are found in considerable numbers about the mouths of rivers, near thecapes of East Florida, lat. 25°. The Indians kill them with the harpoon, duringthe summer months. One Indian has been enabled to capture ten or twelve duringa season. They measure from eight to ten feet, and are about the weight of alarge ox. We have reason to believe this species inhabits the West Indies, and is probablythe same animal mentioned by Capt. Henderson, in his account of the British set-tlement of Honduras, (1809.). TR ;i, WANATt/S Of FLORIDA. 71 Senegalensis, is a greater depth of the nasal process of theintermaxillary bone, fig. 2nd. (a.) From this comparison it results that the characters de-tailed by Cuvier as separating the African from the Ame-rican Lamantin, do not apply to those of North America ;and we are made acquainted with the interesting fact, ofthe existence of two species of Manati on the coast ofNorth and South America. However, should furtherinvestigation and examination of the living animal fromFlorida, prove it possessed of some external characterssufficient to render it specifically distinct from the *&-negalensis then this species will require to be designatedby an appropriate name, in order to distinguish it fromthe other Lamantins hitherto described ; and as the snoutof the former appears to be wider below the eyes, thanin both the latter
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