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ously li\ing in the Zoological Society's Gardens. The dimensions 

 they gi\e however, seem rather large. 



Richardson says further that it was used solely in the chase and 

 was probably too small to serve as a burden carrier. Its voice was a 

 wolf-like howl, but at some unusual sight it would make a singular 

 attempt at barking, commencing AVith a peculiar growl and ending 

 in a prolonged howl. 



Here may be mentioned what seems to be an unknown or vanished 

 breed of dogs as indicated in the account of Frobisher's ^'oyage to 

 Arctic America in 1577. At the present Frobisher Bay, in south- 

 eastern Baffin Land, the expedition found in addition to the large 

 dogs used for sledging, a smaller breed, which was apparentl\' used 

 only as food, and allowed the freedom of the skin tents of the Eskimos. 

 The historian of the expedition writes that they "found since by 

 experience, that the lesser sort of dogges they feede fatte, and keepe 

 them as domesticall cattell in their tents for their eating, and the 

 greater sort serve for the use of drawing their sleds." At York Sound, 

 the same writer relates that on going ashore to examine "certaine 

 tents of the countrey people," they "found the people departed, as it 

 should seeme, for feare of their comming. But amongst sundry strange 

 things which in these tents they found, there was rawe and new killed 

 flesh of unknowen sorts, with dead carcasses and bones of dogs" 

 (Hakluyt's Voyages, Everyman's Library, ed. 5, p. 212, 215). Concern- 

 ing this "lesser sort of dogges," nothing further seems to be known, 

 whether they were a dwarf variety of the Eskimo dog, or as seems 

 likelv, a small breed similar to those of the Hare Indians or of other 

 tribes of the mainland. 



FuEGiAN Dog. 

 Plate 4, fig. 2. 



Characters. — Size small, as large as a terrier, muzzle slender, ears 

 large, delicate, and erect, body and limbs well-proportioned, shoulders 

 higher than rump; tail long, drooping, slightly recurved at the tip 

 and well-fringed; feet webbed; color uniform grayish tan, or often 

 with patches of black or tan, and areas of white; inside of the mouth 

 dark-pigmented. 



Distribution. — Found chiefly among the "Canoe Indians" — Yah- 

 gans and Alacalufs — of the Fuegian Archipelago, from Cape Horn to 

 Beagle Channel, and northwestward, probably at least to the western 

 part of Magellan Strait. 



