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on a flat surface. The palate of the Pug-nosed Dog, makes an angle 

 with the table of about 27° against about 15° in the case of the longer- 

 nosed breed. The same rugose surface of the brain-case, the lieaviness 

 of bone and the thickened prominc/twes at each side of the posterior 

 narial openings, characteristic of the Inca Dog, are seen in this breed 

 as well. 



No Hmb-bones have been obtained that can be referred to this dog, 

 but it is Hkelv that thev were short and thick hke those of the related 

 breed. 



The following table gives dimensions of the sL\ skulls in the U. S. 

 N. M. and is interesting for comparison with those of the Short-nosed 

 Indian Dog. 



Remarks. — ^The existence of this breed of aboriginal dogs with 

 shortened face and undershot, bull-dog-like jaw, was first discovered 

 by Reiss and Stiibel in the course of their investigation of the necro- 

 polis of Ancon, Peru. Nehring (1885) published an account of their 

 discovery and gave the Latin name Canis ingae molossoides to the 



