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for we find in a similar state the small Hyaena of the 

 Desert, which retains only a broad and bristly band 

 of hair from the head to the tail. The Lychaon 

 pictus, in old age, becomes likewise naked; and 

 even the lion of Arabia is deficient in mane. The 

 same effect is produced upon a race of Pariahs of 

 India, known by the name of Poly gar dog ; and the 

 naked dog of Mexico, of the indigenous Gosque 

 race, not carried to the West by the Spaniards, is 

 similarly destitute of hair, no doubt from the same 

 causes.* This last race is almost without voice, or 

 utters only a feeble howling. It is but partially 

 intermixed with the hairy dogs, is nearly useless, 

 and, nevertheless, much caressed by the Indian na- 

 tives. It may be this was the God-dog of the 

 Xauxa and Huanca Indians ; for, even in America, 

 the dog was a type of divinity ! We have often 

 seen puppies suckled by human beings. 



The next group we have to take into consider- 

 ation, is that which contains 



* See Brown's Jamaica, under the name of Indian Dog, the 

 preceding article Alco, and Rengger Saeugethiere von Para- 

 guay. 



