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DOG. 



(Family Canidae.) 



CANIS Familiaris, domestic dog. Some thirty varieties 

 of dog are said to be introduced. Of these the most com- 

 mon are, Molossus, or bull-dog, Sagax, or hound, Avicularis, 

 or pointer, Graius, or greyhound, several kinds, the Ex- 

 trarius, or spaniel, the Aquaticus, or poodle, and the 

 Danicus, or spotted carriage-dog. Most of these varieties 

 are on the mountain, as man is generally accompanied by 

 this domestic wolf wherever he goes. 



De Kay remarks : "Of those peculiar to North America, we 

 find variety borealis, Esquimaux, lagopus, and terra-novae, 

 Newfoundland, Canadensis, and novae- Caledoniae." 



CANIS Occidentalis, (Canis Lupus, Harlan,) variety 

 Griseo-albus. This is the common gray wolf, the type of 

 indigenous North American dogs, and has the range of the 

 continent. A few still linger in the remote and deepest 

 fastnesses of the Alleghanies, and indulge in their ancient 

 love of mutton at the expense of the husbandman. As a 

 victim of the hunt, he is still pursued with vindictive hatred 

 by the new occupant of the soil. 



FOX. 



YULPES Fulvus, red fox. The common red fox is 

 abundant on the mountain. He hides in inaccessible places, 

 burrowing in caverns, rocks, hollow logs, and the darkest 

 ravines. He is thus protected from his greatest enemy, man, 

 as an object of diversion. The hound can still penetrate 

 his retreats, but the horseman must arrest his pursuit in the 

 rougher parts of the mountain. In other portions of the 

 table-lands, or elevated valleys between the mountains, 

 there is fine ground for fox-hunting. From the abundance 

 of the red fox, he can be started at any time by hounds, 

 and from his well-known habit of "circling" (as the hunters 

 style the movement) about his native den or thicket, and 

 running for a great length of time in circumscribed spaces, 



