. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. » liAil^^'^ cxcn APPENDIX. tlie upper jaw, and four in the lower. O. Fabricius and Cuvier describe only four in cither jaw ; but Muller (Prodroinus) mentions having seen a Green- land specimen with five in the upper. The eyes are prominent, rather than sunken, as stated by Pennant. It might also be erroneously inferred that the walrus has a tail, from an expression in t
. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. » liAil^^'^ cxcn APPENDIX. tlie upper jaw, and four in the lower. O. Fabricius and Cuvier describe only four in cither jaw ; but Muller (Prodroinus) mentions having seen a Green- land specimen with five in the upper. The eyes are prominent, rather than sunken, as stated by Pennant. It might also be erroneously inferred that the walrus has a tail, from an expression in the Arctic Zoology, " body very thick in the middle, lessening gradually t«)wards tht ; 12. MoNODON MoNocERos. Narw/ittl. An individual of this species was killed in Prince R gent's Inlet; the horn was unfortunately not perfect, a piece having been broken off the end by some accident; the part which remained was above four feet in length externally, the diameter at the insertion an inch and six-tenths, and at the broken end eight-tenths of an inch; the length of the animal from the insertion of the horn to the fork of the tail, thirteen feet five inches and a half; the spiracle at the summit of the head, fourteen inches and a half from the extremity of the snout, two inches eight-tenths in diameter, having a membrane in the interior, dividing it into two parts ; the fins were two feet four inches and a half from the insertion of the horn, six inches and a half broad at the base, seven inches and a half in the middle which is the broadest part, and fifteen inches long; the skin half an inch thick, marbled black and white in the back, beneath white; the fins black. Besides the twelve species of Mammalia which have been thus described, the Balaena Mysticetus, B. Physalus, and the Delphinus Albicans, were fre- quently seen, but no individual of either species was Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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