. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . Hudson Bay, pi. facing p. 134, middle figure. §Loc. cit., p. 236. 100 ODOB^NUS EOSMAEUS ATLANTIC WALEUS. round, prominent ears, small, pointed, inward-curving tusks, nohind feet, and a body tapering to a doubly emarginate fish-liketail, possibly intended to represent hind limbs. Poutoppidon, in his Natural History of Norway, publishedin 1751, gave a figure of the Walrus in which the resemblanceconsisted mainly in the presence of two huge tusks in the upperjaw. Only the head, ne
. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . Hudson Bay, pi. facing p. 134, middle figure. §Loc. cit., p. 236. 100 ODOB^NUS EOSMAEUS ATLANTIC WALEUS. round, prominent ears, small, pointed, inward-curving tusks, nohind feet, and a body tapering to a doubly emarginate fish-liketail, possibly intended to represent hind limbs. Poutoppidon, in his Natural History of Norway, publishedin 1751, gave a figure of the Walrus in which the resemblanceconsisted mainly in the presence of two huge tusks in the upperjaw. Only the head, neck, and upper portion of the body arerepresented; but the general outline, as far as seen, is sug-gestive of the animal it was intended to represent. Houttuyn,* in 1701, gave a very fair figure of the skull and ospenis of a Walrus. As P. L. S. Miiller, in 1773, used Houttuynsplates in his Natursystern, these figures are there again calledinto service, to which was added a noteworthy representationof the This represents an apparently young Walrusas lying partly on the side, with the diminutive hind feet. FIG. 11.— Wall-Ross, Martens Spitzbergeu, &c. 1675, t. P, fig. &. (Eeduced three-tenths.) turned forward. The general outline of the body indicatesthe obese form of the Walrus; but the head, with its small,short tusks, has scarcely the faintest resemblance to the headof that animal. * Natuurlyke Historic of uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Plaiiten enMineraalen, volgeus het Samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naaw-keurige Af beeldingen. Eerste Deels, tweede Stuk, 1761, pi. xi, figg. 1, 4. tDes Eitters Carl von Linne Kouiglich Schwedischen Leibarztes, &c. & Natursystem nach der zwolften lateinischen Ausgabe und uachAnleitung des holliindischen Houttuynischen Werks mit einer ausfiihrliclieuErkliirung ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statins Miiller, etc. ErsterTheil. Niirnberg, 1773. PI. sxix, fig. 2. This is one of the few originalplates added by Mi
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