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tree-wool, its head and feet tied together. In the size of its skull 

 and leg-bones it was said to be like the ordinary Inca Dog of the collie- 

 like type, but clothed with unusually long hair, especially on the feet 

 and tail. The hair is described as of a dull yellow. This dog must 

 have been very similar to the Long-haired Pueblo Dog previously 

 mentioned as discovered by Messrs. Guernsey and Kidder in excava- 

 tions at Marsh Pass, Arizona. 



Patagonian Dog. 



Characters. — A medium-sized dog, as big as a large Foxhound, 

 coat usually short and wiry, or longer and of softer texture; ears 

 short and erect; color dark, more or less uniform, rarely spotted; 

 dark brownish black, dark tan, or occasionally black; tail bushy. 

 General appearance like a small Wolf. 



Distrilmfion. — Found among the Foot Indians of the eastern parts 

 of Tierra del Fuego, northward into Patagonia, the northwestward 

 limits of distribution not clearly known. 



Remarks. — Hamilton Smith (1840, p. 213) quotes a letter from 

 Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle, that the Patagonian Dog is strong, 

 about the size of a large Foxhound, coat short and wiry, though 

 sometimes soft and long, like that of a Newfoundland Dog. In color 

 it is dark, nearly unifonn, rarely spotted. It is wolfish in appearance, 

 somewhat resembles the Shepherd Dog, will growl and bark loudly. 



It is doubtless a dog of this breed that is meant by Furlong in his 

 statement that of the two types of dogs found among the Onas of 

 Tierra del Fuego, one is like a \Yolf. 



Cunningham (1871, p. 307) mentions that while near Gente Grande 

 Bay, Sandy Point, in the Strait of Magellan, three dogs wandered 

 about in the neighborhood of his landing party, " barking and howling 

 dismally. The first was very much like a fox in size and general 

 appearance, and of a reddish-gray colour; the second had a piebald 

 smooth coat, with drooping ears; while the third was clothed with long 

 dark brownish-black hair, had erect ears, and presented a marked 

 resemblance to a small wolf." The first was probably a Fuegian Dog, 

 obtained through intercourse with tribes of the western part of the 

 Magellanic Archipelago ; the second was possibly a mongrel European 

 dog; the last perhaps a Patagonian Dog. 



Of this animal, Spegazzini (1882, p. 176) writes that it differs greatly 

 from the Fuegian Dogs of the Canoe Indians, "y para mi serian 6 



