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island had dogs wliich from their apparent resemblance to wolves, 

 may have been of the Eskimo breed. For Whitbourne, in his " Dis- 

 course and Discovery of Newfoundland" (London, 1622) writes that 

 the natives of Newfoundland " are a people that will seeke to revenge 

 any wrongs done unto them or their Woolves, as hath often appeared. 

 For they mark their Woolves in the eares with several markes, as is 

 used here in England on Sheepe and other beasts, which hath been 

 likewise well approved. For the Woolves in these parts are not so 

 violent and devouring as Woolves are in other Countries." The same 

 writer speaks with astonishment of his own mastiff's familiarity with 

 these tamed "Woolves" (Mercer, 1897), which it seems reasonable to 

 conclude were really Eskimo Dogs. 



Of the Eskimo Dog in Greenland, BroMii (1868, 1875) considers the 

 breed to be practically the same as that of Davis Straits and Kamt- 

 schatka. In western or Danish Greenland he found it more or less 

 mixed with dogs of European descent and south of Holsteensborg not 

 used by the Eskimo, as the sea is not sufficiently frozen over in winter 

 for sledging. The same author adds that in 1861, Prof. Otto Torell 

 brought several dogs from Greenland for the use of his expedition in 

 Spitzbergen, where on account of the open water they were found 

 useless and set free. Within a few \'ears thev were said to have 

 increased in numbers. 



Plains-Indiax Dog. 



Characters. — Size mediuiii, slightly smaller than the Eskimo Dog; 

 ears large, erect; tail drooping or slightly upcurved; coat rather 

 rough, usually "ochreous tawny" or "whitish tawny," or sometimes 

 black and gray, mixed with white. 



Distribution. — ^ Western North America from British Columbia 

 south perhaps to the Mexican Boundary and eastAvard through the 

 Great Plains Region. 



Notes and Descriptions. — It is apparently to this dog that most of 

 Lord's description (1866, 2, p. 222) applies in his Naturalist in Van- 

 couver Island and British Columbia. So impressed was he by the 

 general similarity of these dogs to coyotes, that he believed the one 

 derived from the other, and makes one general description do for 

 both, with the addition that in the dog the hair "becomes shorter, 

 softer, and more imiform in coloration, although the tail retains its 

 bushy appearance." The general color is an "ochreous grey," the 

 liairs tipped with black, those of the neck tricolored, ha\ing theii 



