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have curly hair. Other varieties occur with either long or short 

 smooth hair, ■ndth bristling or rough hair, curly hair, or with a nearly 

 naked skin ; the latter generally also have imperfect teeth, or teeth 

 that early decay or drop out. 



1. Straisht-Laired 



Large-sized . . , 

 Small-sized . . 

 Soft silky hair. . 

 Soft curly hair 

 Harsh wiry hair 



Naked or nearly so. 

 Short - legged or 



Turnspit. 

 Bull-head mth im- 

 perfect upper jaw. 



5. 

 6. 



7. 



8. Small variety 



9, Large-eyed Dog 



Greyhound Black - and - 



! Terrier. 

 Deerhound. | 

 Italian Greyhoundl Toy Terrier. 

 Thibet Greyhound 



tan 



Irish Greyhound . . 

 Naked Greyhound 



Wiry or rough- 

 haired Terrier, 

 Naked Terrier. . 

 Turnspit Dog . . 

 Scotch Terrier. 

 Bidl-Doff 



Bull-Terrier. 

 Pus-Dos: . . . . 



Toy Terrier. 



Spaniel. 



Spaniel. 

 Poodle. 



Naked Spaniel. 

 Turnspit Dog. 



King Charles 

 Spaniel. 



Japan Sleeve- 

 Dog &c. 

 Japan Sleeve - 

 Dog. 



Some varieties are malformations, as (1) the BuU-Dog and the 

 Pug Dog have a short, imperfect upper jaw and a broken nose ; but 

 this malformation occurs as a subvariety among Spaniels, as in the 

 Japanese Sleeve-Dog; and (2) other Dogs (continued by breeding) 

 have the hps, on the sides of the mouth, very large and pendulous, 

 as the Mastiff. Several varieties also occur presenting (3) short- 

 legged long-bodied breeds, — as the Turnspit, the Scotch Terrier, 

 and the Muff-Dogs or Short-legged Spaniels. There is another 

 variety (4) with very large, protruding eyes, which, in some of 

 the Dogs of Japan, where this breed is esteemed, are sometimes 

 so large and prominent as to be easily knocked out of the orbit by 

 accident. 



The Domestic Dog presents three distinct forms of ears. (1) Some, 

 as the Spitz Dog, have short ovate, erect, hairy ears ; (2) others, 

 like the Greyhound, have elongated ears that are folded together, 

 bent backward on the sides of the head ; while (3) the Hound and 

 Spaniels have broad ears bent down on the sides of the head. 

 When the varieties with different forms of ears are bred together, 

 intermediate forms may be observed. 



The tail, in most varieties, is elongated, tapering and generally 

 white at the end ; it is often more or less curved, and sometimes 

 closely spirally bent. But the tails of many Domestic Dogs are cut; 

 and some few breeds are said to be bom tailless. But I have never 

 seen any examples of the latter. 



Varieties which are very distinct in their external form, length 

 and kind of hair, and colour, have skulls so alike that they are not 

 to be distinguished by any appreciable character. Thus it is im- 

 possible to distinguish the skull of a Terrier from that of a Spaniel, 



