EASTERN DOGS IN EARLY TIMES 



three kinds : one, diminutive, short-tailed, with erect ears ; 

 another, long-bodied and long-tailed, long-legged, also with 

 erect ears ; and a third of sturdier build, also long-tailed, 

 and with erect ears. 

 It has been re- 

 marked by zoologists 

 that the semi- 

 domestic dogs of 

 the early inhabitants 

 of many regions of 

 the earth closely 

 resemble the wolf 

 races of the same 

 regions, with these 

 differences, that the 

 domesticated dog is 

 able to bark, while 

 the wolf is able only 

 to howl, and that in 

 the wolf the position 

 or form of the eye is 

 oblique, while the 

 dog has a circular 

 pupil. The wolf is 

 found throughout 

 China. Very few 

 specimens, however, 

 have been secured, 

 and the Chinese races have never been studied by scientists. 

 Similar remarks hold good for the wild dog, or " tsai-kou " 

 of the Chinese. Two varieties of the wild-dog (C. alpinns) 

 occur in China, one from the Tibet-Kansu borderland, the 

 other from the Manchurian forests. They are closely related to 



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BRONZE TAZZA (FROM HSI CH'lNO KU CHIEN) 

 From " Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty.". By Berthold Laufer. 



