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countrymen, he is as yet wholly unaware of my continuation of Schreber's 

 work. 



Histoire du Chien cliez tous les Peuples clu Monde, 

 d'apres la Bible, les Peres de 1'Eglise, le Koran, Homere, 

 Aristote, Xenophon, Herodote, Plutarque, Pausanias, Pline, 

 Horace, Virgile, Ovide, Jean Cajus, Paullini, Gesner, &c. 

 Par Elzear Blaze. Paris, 1843, pp. 458, 8vo. 



The author, who styles himself "Auteur du Chasseur au chieu d'arret, du 

 Chasseur au chien couraut, &c.," assures us that this book is the fruit of the 

 labours of twenty years. He is passionately devoted to the subject of his 

 work, giving it the preference even to man. The various relations of the 

 dog to man, and all its properties, are circumstantially displayed and estab- 

 lished by numerous anecdotes, so that the lovers of the dog will delight in 

 this book. 



Lmid has drawn up a summary view of the Brazilian 

 species of the Dog family. 



As it was communicated by me in these Archives (1843, p. 353), I need 

 here only observe, that he distinguishes five living and seven extinct species. 

 Among the latter he forms the genera Palccocyon, Speothos, and Abathmodon. 

 Among the living, he sets up as new, Icticyon (formerly named by him Cy no- 

 gale) venations, forming the transition to the Martens, to which Lund formerly 

 referred it. The detailed memoir must be waited for, to enable us to form 

 a correct judgment upon it. 



On the skull and dentition of Canis jubatus, as well as upon the species 

 confounded together under the name of Cauls Azartc, I have made a commu- 

 nication in the ' Archives, 3 p. 350. The latter are, C. melanqms, "Wagn., C. 

 r, '/in' us, Lund (C. azarae, Neuw.), and C. melanostomus, Mus, Viiid. 



It appears that the Canis viryinianus, Gm. et Harl. 

 (Gray Fox, Catesb.) must be again restored. 



De Kay gives the following description of it in the ' Nat. Hist, of New 

 York' (i, p. 45) : smaller than C. fulvus, in general silver gray, which 

 becomes darker from the withers towards the hinder parts ; the hair is lead- 

 coloured at the root, then of a dirty white, gradually becoming white and 

 black at the tip. Head gray; ears yellowish within, and reddish at the 

 base ; points dark brown, yellowish behind ; a dark spot on each side 

 between the nose and eye. Muzzle black, above with a small yellow tract 

 on each side ; sides of neck tawny, lower jaw black. Breast sometimes with 

 while spots; lower side bright coloured; tail same colour as the body, 

 slightly dashed with red beneath, sometimes darker at the tip. Body 



