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Skekial Meafiiironcnts. — The first of the Calf Island jaws al)Ove, is 

 accompanied by parts of the skeleton of the same animal. The limb- 

 bones of this skeleton and those of several dogs from Madisonville, 

 Ohio, measure: 



Notrs and DcbTriptions. — On account of the finding of cranial 

 fragments that appear to represent this animal, in aboriginal l)urials 

 in Cuba, it is assumed that this is the dog mentioned by the first 

 discoverers under Columbus. Oviedo (1535) writing of the aboriginal 

 dogs in Haiti shortly after the discovery, declared that they were no 

 longer to be found there in 1535, as all had been killed for food during 

 a time of famine. These dogs he described as of all the colors found 

 among the dogs of Spain, some uniformly colored, others marked with 

 blackish and white, or reddish brown. The coat of some was woolly, 

 of others silk\' or satiny, but most of those in Haiti were between silky 

 and satiny, yet rougher than the Spanish dogs; with ears pointed and 



