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many and his demon hounds, the Hellequin and 

 King Arthur in the forest of Broceliant. 



As we find species of this group in the southern 

 part of the Old World, so we find an approximating 

 species (or perhaps group) with similar colours, and 

 it seems with a like want of the second tubercular 

 tooth, in the corresponding latitudes of the New 

 "World. The Aguara gouzou is the species we 

 mean ; and until its manners are better known, we 

 may suspect it executes some parts of the same 

 duties, although, not being gregarious, it does not 

 possess the same efficient means. 



We consider it to be absolutely begging the ques- 

 tion, when canines, by travellers called wild dogs, 

 are deemed varieties that are descended from the 

 domestic, or that may by some chance be their 

 offspring, even when in all the country where they 

 are observed, the familiar dogs are totally different, 

 or are a poor degenerate race when compared with 

 the wild. This practice only tends to protract the 

 imcertainty, as is evident when we look to the state- 

 ments of Viscount de Querhouent, who, we believe, 

 first noticed the Canis pictus of authors, and whose 

 description continued most pertinaciously to be 

 placed with dogs run wild. Sparrman indicates 

 both the same animal and the red wild dog, and 

 points out a third, which is no doubt the Hyaena 

 mllosa^ so lately described by Dr Smith ; yet, until 

 his figure and description appeared, this also was a 

 feral dog ; whereas, if they had been entered in the 

 catalogues of naturalists, their existence would have 



