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molars, and this character of the sectorial, Cope refers this breed to 

 his genus Dysodus (Cope, 1879, lS79a) based on the Japanese Lap- 

 dog, adding that " the species may be called Dysodus gibbus," for 

 " the Chihuahua dog is the Canis gibbvs of Hernandez." The animal 

 to which Hernandez applied the adjective " (jibcrostis,''' however, was 

 with little doubt a Raccoon. 



Skeletal Remains. — Among a great number of bones of Indian dogs 

 examined, from mounds, burials, or refuse deposits in various parts of 

 America, there occur skulls or fragments of jaws appertaining to a 

 wholly different type of dog from the large varieties just described. 

 The remains indicate a small light-limbed animal, with slender muzzle 

 abruptly narrowed in front of the third premolar. Although the 

 surface of the brain-case in adults is roughened for muscular attach- 

 ment the sagittal crest does not develop till old age. All the teeth 

 are small (upper carnassi^l 14-16.5 mm. in length), the nasals long, 

 and the skull normal, in that it seems not shortened or broadened in 

 any way, the teeth not crowded. A transverse line at the end of the 

 palate falls about through the middle of the second molar. These 

 dogs are probably the third variety of Hernandez, the Techichi or 

 Small Indian Dog. Several skulls, more or less imperfect, from the 

 Madisonville, Ohio, village site are referred to this breed, though 

 their measurements are a very little larger than those of more southern 

 specimens. They occur here together with bones of the large type of 

 Indian Dog. An imperfect cranium (M. C. Z. 7,123) collected many 

 years ago in McPherson's Cave, Virginia, by Lucien Carr, is apparently 

 in every respect similar to a skull of this type from Pecos, N. M., 

 obtained by Dr. A. V. Kidder in the course of excavating a village site. 

 A similar but slightly smaller, though adult, skull from Pueblo exca- 

 vations in the southwest is practically the same, as is also a skull of 

 the Papago Indian Dog obtained by the late Dr. Edgar A. Mearns 

 at Sonoyta, Sonora, while on the Mexican Boundary Survey. It is 

 not fully adult, though of nearly mature dimensions. What seems to 

 be a dog of this type is represented in the Peabody Museum by a 

 cranium and hind leg-bones from Labna, Yucatan; the rostrum is 

 damaged and the teeth lost except the carnassial. The long slender 

 limb-bones are in strong contrast with the short thick bones of the 

 Short-nosed Indian Dog. 



Turning now to South America, the Museum has a cranium from 

 Surinam, labeled: — Carib Indian Dog. It was received through the 

 Boston Society of Natural History from the Wyman Collection, and 

 was probably collected by Dr. F. W. Cragin, some fifty years ago 



