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domesticated Dog, which was then used as food in Otalicitc *, as it is 

 in various islands to the present day. The Domestic Dog wliicli was 

 also found existing in New Zealand, and which is now extinct, was 

 much like that which existed amongst the Pacitic Islanders. It was a 

 much smaller animal than the Dingo, with a pointed nose, long hair of 

 different colours, and a short bushy tail. It is described as having had 

 little power of smell, with only a howl and no proper bark, and of a 

 lazy, sullen disposition f . It was trained to catch the Apteryx and was 

 generally much petted by its owners. 



Feral Dogs exist in Cuba, of a mouse-colour, with short ears and 

 light blue eyes \ ; and Mr. Darwin tells us, on the authority of Mr. C. 

 Clarke, concerning Feral Dogs of Juan de Nova in the Indian Ocean, 

 that " they had entirely lost the faculty of barking . had no inclination 

 for the company of other dogs," but that " they congregate in vast 

 packs, and catch sea-birds with as much address as Foxes could 

 display." 



Feral Dogs exist on the continent of South America and in Africa, 

 and one such in Seuegambia has been described under the name 

 C. laohetiatius ^. 



The Pariah Dogs of India are very numerous and breed in the 

 towns and villages unmolested. Amongst these Colonel Sykes found 

 one with crooked legs and a long back, like a Turnspit Dog Ij . It 

 has the appearance of a mongrel form of the Domestic Dog. 



To the breeds which now exist, and which are much more numerous 

 than in tjie _earliest days of human histo ry, it is probable that others 

 w jll be added by variation and careful selection. Nevrrtlulr--. wlim 

 we consider the resemblance which exists hetwcen the mo-t miciciit 

 bre eds (as represented by sculpture and painting") and thu .-c <il our 



* Captain Cook's Voyages, 4to (1873), vol. ii. p. 152, 



t See an article, " On the Ancient Dog of the New Zealauders," in the Trans, of the 

 X. Zealand Institute, vol. x. (1877), pp. 135-155. 



* See Poeppig, ' Keise in Chile,' vol. i. p. 290. Quoted by Darwin, ' ^inimals and 

 Plants under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 27. 



§ G. A. T. Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. (6) vol. vii. p. y. 

 11 See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 100. 



