. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . 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 figu
. History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . 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. FlG. 8.—Eosmarus. Gesuer, Icoues Animalium, 1560, p. 178. De Cetis,Orel. xii. (Reduced two-thirds.) another, which he received from Strassburg. Thisf represents,as von Baer terms it, the morphological paradox of a verte-brate with two pairs of feet, a pair of wings or floats ( Flossen),and a fishs tail. The head has considerable resemblance to thatof a Walrus, with the large tusks properly situated in the upperjaw, and the eyes and nose are passably represented. The feetare all directed backward, in a swimming posture, and armedwith strong claws. The Seal-like body has engrafted upon it thetail of a fish, while at the shoulder is seen a sort of wing-likeappendage. The figure of the head is said to have been drawnin Strassburg from an actual specimen afterward sent by thebishop of Drontheim to the Pope, but to this was added awholly imaginary figure of the body. Gesners figure was sev-eral times copied, among others by Ambrosinus in 1642, inhis Addenda to Aldrovanduss work,§ and als
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