Identifier: museileverianiex121792shaw (find matches)
Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ior, in Phoca evidens et confpicua, maxima autem et certif-fima eft in Trichechi genere, donee in Tricheclio Manato, feu illo cui caudarotundata, quadrupedis forma jam fere deperdita, in cetariis animalibus penitusdeleatur; his enim tanta videtur efle cum pifcibus afEnitas, ut inter eos nume-rencur a plurimis qui de hiftoria naturali aniiquitus confcripferinc. No. III. Q Magni ( o ) Ma(-ni venditur hujufce fpeciei vellus, ex quo prfecipue conficiuntur vefteslautifTimae magnatum Turcicorum et Rufficorum. Varietas vero eft altera etmajor, cujus pilus pretiofior et delicatior. Circa littora Kamtfchatks nee non infularum Afiam et Amerlcam inteija-centium prfecipiie cernitur Muftela Lutris. Pifcibus vefcitur, more Lutras vul-garis. Natat audader et celerrime. Maximo erga prolem amore fervet, quifane non modo huic generi fed et cetario forfan violentior quam reliquis plc-rifque animalibus. Color fufco-nigricat. Longltudo, ut plurimum, paulo fuperat quatuor pedesa nafo ad extrcmum caud^. THE
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6^ ,=5 W CO 1 s ( iix ) THE SEA OTTER. GENERIC CHARACTER. Six CUTTING TEETH and two canine in each jaw. Five TOES on each foot; each toe connefted by a ftrong web. Pennant. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Sable Otter with tail about four times flaorter than the body. Sea Otter. Penti. Hijl. ^adr. p. i^S^ THE Lutra?, or Otters, of which fome fpecies inhabit frefh waters andothers the fea, are remarkable for the firft or beginning approach inpoint of external figure amongft quadrupeds to the animals of the fifhy tribe,which is more nearly approached to by the Beaver; ftill more by the Seal,and extremely fo by the genus Trichechusj till in the Trichcchus Manatus,or round-tailed Manati, the outline of a quadruped is almofl: obliterated, andat length is quite loft in the Cetaceous tribe, which have fo much the generalhabit or appearance of fiflies, that by many of the older writers on naturalhiftory they have been clalTcd as fuch. Q^ 2 Con- ( 112 ) Confidered in a commercial view the prefent f

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