HOARY AGUARA DOG. 251 



to all the feet ; the inner claws largest and sharp ; 

 the rictus of the mouth opened to a great depth, 

 and the physiognomy resembled that of a small 

 wolf. This animal was covered with loose coarse 

 hair on the neck, body, and hams, whitish inter- 

 mixed with sandy clouds, and the tips of many 

 hairs black, particularly on the back : the legs were 

 pale fulvous; the tail was scantily supplied with 

 long hairs, black above, whitish beneath. It dif- 

 fered only from the domestic breeds in being some- 

 what darker and larger. In the domestic we observed 

 likewise that the palate was black, and the edge of 

 the lower lip of the same colour, but more deeply 

 indented and broader than in the dogs of Europe. 

 It may be that this is the Canis thous of Linnaeus, 

 ^and that his characters of a wart above the eyes 

 should have been given as below, and the ciliated 

 tongue may refer to the jagged under lip, mistated ^ 

 tlirough inadvertence by his informant. 



