. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . FIG. 6.—Sosinarns. Gesner, Addenda, 368, 10, 1560. (Reduced one-ninth.) •creature having a swinish head, with long, ascending tusks inthe lower jaw, four short, clawed feet, and a rather long, cylin-. FlG. 7.— Tacca manna, Gcsner, Addenda, p. 369, 1560. drical body wrapped in armor! Another is a monstrous seaanimal, with a circle of long spines around the head, and tuftsof spines from the nostrils and chin, four feet, the anterior onlywith claws, a forked tail with the points l
. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . FIG. 6.—Sosinarns. Gesner, Addenda, 368, 10, 1560. (Reduced one-ninth.) •creature having a swinish head, with long, ascending tusks inthe lower jaw, four short, clawed feet, and a rather long, cylin-. FlG. 7.— Tacca manna, Gcsner, Addenda, p. 369, 1560. drical body wrapped in armor! Another is a monstrous seaanimal, with a circle of long spines around the head, and tuftsof spines from the nostrils and chin, four feet, the anterior onlywith claws, a forked tail with the points laterally recurved, and * See Fig\ 6, copied by Gray from See Fig. 7, copied by Gray from Gesner. FIGURES. 95 two great tusks iii the upper jaw, but no other resemblance tothe Walrus.* The figures published by Olaus Magnus were, according tovon Baer, all faithfully copied by Gesiier, t who added to them
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