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THE HOUNDS. 



WE have, in the description of domestic dogs, 

 adverted to the original residence of this group in 

 the East, and to its introduction among us at a period 

 subsequent to the arrival of the more wolf-like 

 varieties. When we shall know more of the Lycis- 

 cus tigris, before noticed, and of the Wah, or 

 BuansU) we may perhaps find that one, or the 

 mixture of both species, are the progenitors of the 

 Hound races, and that it is thence they derive 

 the general tendency to be marked with three 

 colours which we have seen were noticed in Ceylon 



