History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . nne 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 Miiller to Honttuyns series FIGURES. 101 In 1765, a most wretched and ludicrous caricature of theWalrus was contributed by Marte
History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . nne 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 Miiller to Honttuyns series FIGURES. 101 In 1765, a most wretched and ludicrous caricature of theWalrus was contributed by Martens.* In this figure, the much-abused Walrus is represented as having an enormously largeand shapeless head, in which the small tusks are set widelyapart; it has small Seal-like fore feet, and no hind limbs, or, ifpresent, they are directed backward, and look more like a fishstail than distinct limbs. The tusks alone give the figure anysuggestion of what it was intended to represent. The next figure of which I have knowledge was published byBuffon,t also in 1765, and soon after copied by This. FIG. 12.—Ze Morse, Buffon, xiii, t, 548, 1765. (Reduced two-fifths.) was evidently drawn from a stuffed specimen, to which the taxi-dermist had given the attitude and general form of a commonSeal. In 1827, a very fair figure of the head (the animal beingsupposed to be in the water, with only the head visible) waspublished in Griffiths Animal Kingdom (vol. ii, pi. v), whichwas later repeated by Hamilton,§ and also elsewhere. In 1836,a very fair, colored figure (evidently from a stuffed specimen),barring the posterior direction of the hind limbs, appeared in theDisciples edition || of Cuviers Eegne Animal, copied from Pal- * Spitzbergische Reisebeschreibiuig, pi. P, fig. &. This fig. is also repro-duced by Gray (1. c., fig. 7), and is here copied as Fig. 11. t Histoire Naturelle, t. xiii, pi. liv. t Sauget., pi. Ixxix. § Amphibious Carnivora, p. 106, in Jard. Nat. Library, Mam
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