178 THE RED DOfiS. 



dentally recorded;* and Pliny, who collected all 

 the information within his reach, without attempt- 

 ing much of arrangement or identification, may 

 have had that race in view, when he asserts that all 

 animals in a domestic state had their counterparts 

 also in a wild condition. These considerations we 

 deem sufficient to establish the right of applying 

 the name of Chryseus to the present group, and 

 even to add to it 



* A family of the name of Montefalcone bore a wolf salient 

 gules. Another of the same name had red dogs for supporters, 

 in a collection of blazoned Italian arms in the library of 

 St Mark at Venice. 



