THE MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG. 649 



Whether hairless dogs are crested or plain hairless, of 

 uniform mouse-color, or plum-pudding color, as our Eng- 

 lish writer picturesquely styles them, or whether they 

 have slate or pink points, as I once saw described, it seems 

 reasonable to suppose them all of the same breed and of 

 the same origin, inasmuch as the smooth and the rough 



MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG ME TOO.* 

 Owned by Elroy Foote, 120 Lexington avenue, New York City. 



coated Fox Terrier are of the same breed. Which is the 

 truer type I am not prepared to say, but I will unhesitat- 

 ingly state my preference for the dark, smooth, and strictly 

 hairless dog as against the mottled and unfinished effect 

 of the so-called crested dog. 



* Winnings: First and special, New Haven, 1884; first, New York, 1884; 

 first, Philadelphia, 1884; first and special, New Haven, 1885; first, Boston, 

 1885; first. New York, 1885; first, Philadelphia, 1885. 



