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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



is his classification, which in the main is correct^ and I shall adhere 

 to it with trifling alterations in the pages of this book. 



F. Cuvicrs DlviMonal Arrangcmej^t. 



I. MATINS. 



Chamctcrked by head more or less elongated ; parietal bones 

 insensibly approaching each other ; condyles of the lower jaw 

 placed in a horizontal line with the upper molar teeth, exempli- 

 fied by — 



Skull of Dinffo. 



Sect. 1. Half-reclaimed dogs, hunting in packs ; such as the 

 Dingo, the Dhole, the Pariah, &c. 



Sect. 2. Domesticafed dogs, hunting in packs, or singly, but using 

 the eye in preference to the nose ; as, for instance, the 

 Albanian dog, Deerhound, &c. 



Sect. 3. Domesticated dogs, which hunt singly, and almost entirel}'" 

 by the eye. Example : the Greyhound. 



