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domesticated Dog, which was then used as food in Otaheite *, as it is 

 in various islands to the present day. The Domestic Dog which was 

 also found existing in New Zealand, and which is now extinct, was 

 much like that which existed amongst the Pacific Islanders. It was a 

 much smaller animal than the Dingo, with a pointed nose, long hair of 

 different colours, and a short bushy tail. It is described as having had 

 little power of smell, with only a towl-an4- no-proper -bark, and of a 

 lazy, sullen disposition f. It was trained to catch the Apteryx-and was 

 .generally mnr IT pettftd by its own er s . 



Feral Dogs exist in Cuba, of a mouse-colour, with short ears and 

 light blue eyes j ; and Mr. Darwin tells us, oiT~tfieH3ntfiorrty - 

 j rnnrrmin^ TVrnl Dnprn nf Tnnn da NnTft in the 



-tbaf"" they had entirely lost the faculty of barking ; had no inclination 

 for the company of other dogs," but that " they congregate in vast 

 packs, and catch sea-birds with as munh address aq fffflf^rmiM 



ist on the continent of South America and in Africa, 



atrd^one sucli in Senegambia has been described under the name 



The Pariah Dogs of India are very numerous and breed in the 

 towns and villages unmolested. Amongst these Colonel Sykes found 

 one with crooked legs and a long back, like a Turnspit Dog || . It 

 has the appearance of a mongrel form of the Domestic Dog. 



To the breeds which now exist, and which are much more numerous 

 than in the earliest days of human history, it is probable that others 

 will be added by variation and careful selection. Nevertheless, when 

 we consider the resemblance which exists between the most ancient 

 breeds (as represented by sculpture- and patwtiflg) and those of our 



* Captain Cook's Voyages, 4to (1873), vol. ii. p. 152. 



t See an article, " On the Ancient Dog of the New Zealanders," in the Trans, of the 

 N. Zealand Institute, vol. x. (1877), pp. 135-155. 



See Poeppig, ' lieise in Chile,' vol. i. p. 290. Quoted by Darwin, ' Animals and 

 Plants under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 27. 



G. A. T. Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. (6) vol. vii. p. 9. 



I! See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 100. 



