. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Kents Hole. Fossil Stoats, nat. size. LUTRA VULGARIS. 119 CARNIVORA. MUSTELID.¥.. Fig. Nat. size. Fens, Cambridgesliire. LUTRA VULGARIS. Common Otter. Mustela Lutra, Ltdra antiqua,Loutre, PotamoiJierium Valldonii, Lutra vulgaris. M. DE Serres and Dubrueil, Mem. du Mus^nm,torn, xviii. p. 334. PI. 17, f5g. 14 and 15. H. V. Meyer, Palseologica, p. b5. Croizet and Jobert, Ossem. Foss. du Puy-de-Doine, p. 89. Geoffrey St. Hilaire, cited in De Blainvilles Osteo-graphie. Owen, Report of Brit. Association, 1842. The fen-lands of Cambridgeshire, a
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Kents Hole. Fossil Stoats, nat. size. LUTRA VULGARIS. 119 CARNIVORA. MUSTELID.¥.. Fig. Nat. size. Fens, Cambridgesliire. LUTRA VULGARIS. Common Otter. Mustela Lutra, Ltdra antiqua,Loutre, PotamoiJierium Valldonii, Lutra vulgaris. M. DE Serres and Dubrueil, Mem. du Mus^nm,torn, xviii. p. 334. PI. 17, f5g. 14 and 15. H. V. Meyer, Palseologica, p. b5. Croizet and Jobert, Ossem. Foss. du Puy-de-Doine, p. 89. Geoffrey St. Hilaire, cited in De Blainvilles Osteo-graphie. Owen, Report of Brit. Association, 1842. The fen-lands of Cambridgeshire, as I am informed friend Professor Sedgwick, to whom I am also indebtedfor the opportunity of describing- and figuring the subject ofthe above engraving {fig. 43), are chiefly composed of turf-bog, occasionally alternating with marl and clay containingfresh-water shells of living species ; they commence a littlebelow Cambridge and are irregularly expanded on both 120 sides of the river, as far as tlie sea-coast. In Littleport-fen, below Ely, those marsh lands are of very wide extent,and are gradually blended with the gr
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