120 THE FERAL DOGS. 



noticed, were of the same race; and, therefore, 

 that they are really of a wild species, which has, 

 of its own accord, approximated mankind. Hence, 

 also, may be derived the true street-dogs of all the 

 cities of Western Asia. 



Among the feral dogs of the New "World, men- 

 tion has already been made of the Aguara of the 

 Woods. But there is a race whose origin is not 

 doubtful, and which, although it is said to exist 

 also in South America, we denominate the 



FERAL DOG OF ST. DOMINGO. 



Canis Haitensis, H. SMITH. 



PLATE I. 



THE specimen from which the figure and the fol- 

 lowing description were taken, was brought to 

 Spanish-Town, Jamaica, by a French officer taken 

 prisoner when General le Clerc's army endeavoured 

 to escape from the victorious progress of the negroes. 

 The owner described it to be a wild hound, of the 

 race formerly used by the Spaniards for their con- 

 quests in the western hemisphere^ when they were 

 trained like blood- hounds; and a breed of them 

 having been lost in the woods of Haiti, had there 



