180 EGYPTIAN STREET-DOG. 



all the towns, where they occupy in numbers the 

 ruins of decayed buildings and gardens, certain 

 districts or streets^ appear by common consent to 

 oelong exclusively to one portion, while others >are 

 similarly allotted to others; and none dare trans- 

 gress the limits they possess, even when tempted 

 by the most alluring baits. Each in its own dis- 

 trict is likewise a general guardian of the property 

 of all its inhabitants; and where, from religious 

 motives or feelings of humanity, kind-hearted Mos- 

 lems are in the habit of giving out a daily portion 

 of food, or setting water for them, those of the dis- 

 trict alone come to partake of it, and then quietly 

 withdraw. 



In the breeds we now call the Naked Turkish, or 

 Egyptian Dog, there are two races nearly equally 

 destitute of hair ; the first, evidently of the grey- 

 hound stock, is well known, having usually a dull 

 purplish and unctuous skin, being in general defi- 

 cient in the incisor and canine teeth, and often 

 with several of the molars wanting; the other, of 

 smaller stature, a more globular cranium, and very 

 large erect triangular ears, with a fringe of hair 

 upon the edges, and only six mammaB, seems de- 

 rived from a species of Megalotis. This race is more 

 compact than the other; it has a few straggling 

 hairs about the body, and a ridge of the same often 

 runs down the occiput to beyond the shoulders. 

 The absence of hair may be in part caused by chro- 

 nical mange, but it certainly is also a result of ex- 

 posure to an intense sun in a very dry atmosphere ; 



