MATIN.— IIARE-INDIAN DOG. 



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being emplo3'e(l in hunting- the wild boar and wolf. This dog 

 is said, by F. Cuvier, to be the progenitor of the greyhound and 

 deerhound ; but Pennant, on the contrary, considers him to be 

 descended from the Irish wolf-dog:. 



The Hare-Indian Dog. (Youatt.) 



THE HARE-INDIAN DOG. 



The specimen belonging to the Zoological Society, from which 

 the above cut was taken, is now dead, and, I believe, there is no 

 longer one of the variety in England. At one time there were 

 three in the gardens of the Society, but for want of exercise none 

 of the dogs throve there, and they now are entirely absent from the 



