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V. Account of the Cam's Grains Hiheniicus, or Li/lo IJ'olf Dog, defcrlbed 

 in Pennant's Hi/lory of ^ladrupeds, 2,d edit, vol. i. p. 1^1. By A. B. 

 Lambert, Efq. F. R. and F. L. S. 



Read April I, 1 794. 



THIS drawing of the Irifh wolf dog was given me by Lord Alta- 

 mont; done exadlly the natural fize of one in his Lordlliip's 

 poffeffion, at Weftport, in the county of Mayo, Ireland, during my 

 flay there in 1790. I had frequent opportunities of obferving thcfe 

 dogs ; Lord Altamont having eight of them, the only ones now in 

 the kingdom. There is a man employed on purpofe to take care of 

 them ; as they are with difficulty bred up and kept healthy. 



I took the meafurement of one of the largeft, which is as follows : 

 From the point of the nofe to the tip of the tail, fixty-one inches ; 

 tail, feventeen and a half long; from the tip of the nofe to the back 

 part of the (kull, ten Inches ; from the back part of the fkuU to 

 the beginning of the tail, thirty-three inches ; from the toe to the 

 top of the fore-fhoulder, twenty-eight inches and a half; the length 

 of the leg fixteen inches ; from the point of the hind-toes to the 

 top of the hind-fhoulders, thirteen inches ; from the point of the 

 nofe to the eye, four inches and a half; the ears fix inches long; 

 round the wideft part of the belly (about three inches from the 

 fore-kgs) thirty-five inches ; twenty-fix inches round the hind- 

 part, 



