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their legs) and Tiger's stock, although one or two were a little 

 slack in loin, were very straight in the legs, and also very 

 active animals. Lord Kingsdown's Rufus (who died in my 

 possession) could jump a five barred gate when past eight 

 years old, and Captain another son of Tiger's presented to 

 me by Messrs. Broadwood, (the world-famed piano manufac- 

 turers) was one of the fastest and most determined cat killers 

 of any breed of dog I have ever seen. Bruin, another son of 

 Tiger's, was a remarkably muscular and symmetrical animal, 

 with vast bone, and splendid limbs. Four sons of Tiger's, 

 out of different bitches, viz. Wolf, Rufus, Bruin, and Captain, 

 died in my possession, all being aged dogs, and had the best 

 of limbs, and were very active up to the last. Rufus had a 

 remarkably prolonged muzzle, and I kept his skull ; it shows 

 that he had two supernumary false molars direclly behind 

 the canines on each side of the superior maxillary. 



Cuvier observes that these supernumary teeth are developed 

 in each jaw, but that he never saw them developed on each 

 side in the same individual, when for example the left inter 

 maxillary bone has a fifth false molar, the right inter 

 maxillary bone has only the usual number, and it is the same 

 with regard to the supernumary tubercular tooth which is 

 sometimes found in the upper jaw. On account of these 

 modtfications not being perpetuated, Cuvier places them 

 among those casualities which give no foundation for the 

 establishment of any rule. Youatt says of these supernumary 

 teeth, that there is much irregularity accompanying them, 

 and that they have been supposed to have extended to seven 

 or eight. 



Rufus was also born with dewclaws ; nothing is known of 

 the pedigree of his dam, and I had it from very good authority, 



