TIIK DOG FAMILY 



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of the Alps, gives a curious accounl of the assemblage of wolves in Switzerland in \j<)<)- They 

 had, as it is mentioned above, followed the armies from Russia. I laving tasted human flesh, they 

 preferred it to all other, and even dug up the corpses. The Austrian, French, and Russian 

 troops penetrated in 171)1) into the highest mountain valleys of Switzerland, and fought sangui- 

 nary battles there. Hundreds of corpses were left on the mountains and in the forests, which 

 aeted as bait to the wolves, which were not destroyed for some years. 



Wolves will interbreed with dogs readily, which the red fox will not. The progeny do not 

 hark, but howl. The Eskimo cross their dogs with wolves to give them strength. 





Photo by Ottom.ir Antchutx] 



[Berlin 



WOLF OF THE CARPATHIANS 



This ivolf is a shorttr and more heavily built specimen than the Russian ivolj en the previous page 



