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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



active and remarkably intelligent. The 

 dentition is abnormal and imperfect ; a 

 fact which reminds one of Darwin's state- 



usually extremely delicate. It easily blis- 

 ters in summer if exposed to the sun, and 

 therefore requires to be smeared with grease. 

 It is soft to the touch. The colours vary 

 from black to slate colour or blue. In 

 5ome specimens it is shrimp pink with 

 black, blue, or chocolate spots, in others 

 blue and tan, or mottled brown. 



Some are absolutely hairless, but for a 

 crest between the ears, coming down as far 

 as the stop, and a tuft at the tip of the tail 

 of line silk}' hair or bristles. Those with a 

 tail tuft are believed invariably to have also 

 the crest. Occasionally hairs or bristles are 

 found between the toes. The small, cloddy 

 dogs usually show bristly toes. A pink 

 specimen, described by a correspondent, had a 

 silky crest of silvery hair eight inches long, 

 falling over the neck. This dog had a very 

 bushy tail tuft. The colour of the hair 

 in the dark dogs usually corresponds with 

 the colour of the bald skin. But at times 

 the pink or mottled dogs have silvery or 

 brown crests. One of the prettiest of the 

 hairless dogs seen in recent years was a 



MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG. 

 MR. H. C. BROOKES 



PADEREWSKI JUNIOR 



ment that in most ani- 

 mals the teeth or horns 

 have some relation to 

 the growth or absence 

 of hair, and that bald 

 mammals seldom have 

 large horns or tusks, 

 while the long coated 

 animals, such as the 

 Highland cattle, the wild 

 boars, and the hairy 

 mammoth elephant, are 

 remarkable for the 

 length of their horns or 

 tusks. A dry climate 

 may have had some 

 effect in producing dogs 

 without hair. The skin 

 of the hairless dogs is 



MEXICAN HAIRLESS AND CRESTED DOG 

 MR, H. C. BROOKES HAIRY KING. 



