The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . lOO MAMMALIA. nie Ursal (Ph. ursina, Gm. [Arctocep/ialus uninus, F. Cuv. fig. 10.]—Eight feet loiiLC, no maue, varying ir<imbrown to whitish. From the north of the Pacific Ocean. The Morse (Triohecus, Lin.)—Resembles the Seals in the general form of its body and limbs, but difTers considerably from them inthe head and teeth. The lower jaw has neither incisors nor canines, and is compressed anteriorly topass between two enormous canines or tusks which issue
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . lOO MAMMALIA. nie Ursal (Ph. ursina, Gm. [Arctocep/ialus uninus, F. Cuv. fig. 10.]—Eight feet loiiLC, no maue, varying ir<imbrown to whitish. From the north of the Pacific Ocean. The Morse (Triohecus, Lin.)—Resembles the Seals in the general form of its body and limbs, but difTers considerably from them inthe head and teeth. The lower jaw has neither incisors nor canines, and is compressed anteriorly topass between two enormous canines or tusks which issue from the upper one, and which are directeddownwaids, attaining sometimes a length of two feet, with proportionate thickness. The magnitudeof trie sockets requisite for holding such enormous canines raises up the whole front of the upper jaw,so as to form a thick bulging muzzle, the nostrils opening upwards, instead of being terminal. Themolars are all short cylinders, obliquely truncated. There are four [or five] on each side above andbelow ; but at a certain age, two of the upper ones fall out. Between the canines are two in
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