. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . e enormous floating malTes or iflands of ice, which form one ofthe moft wonderful fpedlacles that nature in thofe difmal waftes can are feen floating for many leagues together, and, when driven by winds,frequently approach each other with the moft dreadful crafliing. On thefciflands of ice the fpecies of bear above-mentioned is often feen, ^or it is ca-pable of fwimming feveral leagues at a time, and makes frequent excurfionsto fea in queft of prey. It is remarkable for the greatefl: poflible attachmentto its young; in defence of w
. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . e enormous floating malTes or iflands of ice, which form one ofthe moft wonderful fpedlacles that nature in thofe difmal waftes can are feen floating for many leagues together, and, when driven by winds,frequently approach each other with the moft dreadful crafliing. On thefciflands of ice the fpecies of bear above-mentioned is often feen, ^or it is ca-pable of fwimming feveral leagues at a time, and makes frequent excurfionsto fea in queft of prey. It is remarkable for the greatefl: poflible attachmentto its young; in defence of which it exerts every effort of the moft defperateand vindiftive courage. As a fpecies this bear is diftinguifhed from the com-mon bear by the far fuperior fize of the body j by the more elongated form jby its vaft ftrength of limbs, and particularly by the length of the head j thefigure and proportion of which differs widely from the other ipecies. Itscolour is white, with a very flight tinge of yellowifli, and the lips and claws are black. ^■i I pii, ( 9 ) MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS. CHARACTER GENERICUS. CoRNUA miUa. Dentes Laniarii fuperiores folitarii exferti. Li», CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, &c. Mofchus folliculo umbilicali. Lin. Syji. Nat, p. 91, Capreolus mofchi. Gefii. ^ladr. 6^^. Animal mofchiferum. • Nieremh. Hijl. Nat, p. 184. Pallas, Spic, Zool. fajc, 13. /. 4—6. AGencre cervino pr^cipue diftinguitur hjcc fpecies eo quod cornubuscareat, habeatque in maxilla fuperiori dentes laniarios deorfum fpedtantes,longeqiie prje caeteris exfcrtos. Magnitudo eadem fere ac cervi capreoli Lin-nasi. Cum imo colore, qui fufco-grifeus faturatior, mifcetur aliquid partes pofteriores^ (in nonnuUis laltem fpeciminibus, ut et in hocnoftro) ftriis aliquot obliquis longitudinalibus notantur. Ungute elongatse ni-gricant. Cauda breviffima vix poteft difcerni. Femina carere dicitur dentibuskniariis exfertis, nee non ciftula feu receptaculo mofchifero, quod folius eftmaris.
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