COMMON DOG. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Pritnores superiores 

 sex ; laterales longiores, 

 distantes ; intermedii lo- 

 bati. 



Inferiores sex; laterales lobati. 



Laniarii solitarii, incurvati. 



Molares sex vel septem (plu- 

 resve quam in reliquis ). 



Cutting-teeth in the upper jaw 

 six ; the laternal ones long- 

 er, distant; the interme- 

 diate ones lobated. 



In the lower jaw six; the la- 

 teral ones lobated. 



.Canine-teeth solitary, incur - 

 vated. 



Grinders six or seven (or 

 more than in other genera 

 of this order). 



COMMON DOG. 



Canis Familiaris. C. cauda sinistrorsum recurvata. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. p. 56. 



Dog with recurved tail turned towards the left. 

 Canis. Gem. Quadr. 91. Aldr.dig.Afiz. Johnst. Quadr, 122. 



Ray. Quadr. 176. 



J_ HE Dog, that most faithful and valuable do- 

 mestic, is one of those animals which have so 

 long been taken under the peculiar protection of 

 mankind, that the real origin of the species re- 



