Early History of the Dog 25 



and a shank-bone of six inches is in keeping with a terrier of fourteen or 

 fifteen inches, so that this particular dog must have been very straight in 

 hind-legs. 



Tv^^o well-preserved skulls with coat in good condition were also seen, 

 the ears not being on, as the skin had been severed immediately in front of 

 the ears in each case. The first head had a lighter-coloured and longer coat 

 than either of the mummies. The teeth were small, almost like first puppy- 

 teeth, but the canines were of fair size and showed slight wear. The muzzle 

 was somewhat blunt, but the teeth were perfectly level. The length from 

 eye to end of nose was two and one-half inches. The second head was 

 quite distinct in several respects, and showed quite a lot of character. The 

 skull was moderately wide with a well-carried-out fore-face, the type being 

 of the fox-terrier order. The length from eye to teeth, the nose being miss- 

 ing, was two and a half inches, and over all the head was probably seven 

 inches. The teeth, were strong and sound. The colour was a warm red- 

 brown, almost a maroon shade, with a narrow blaze up the centre and a 

 flick of white where the tan-spot is over the eye of a black-and-tan terrier, 

 and white along the lips to the cheeks as with the tan on a black-and-tan. 

 We presume these were the dog's original colours, but we have never seen a 

 dog so marked with white, and it was a very peculiar body colour. 



The half-dozen skulls also showed much difference in type. The lower 

 jaws in each case were missing, and in most of them only some molars were 

 still in the upper jaws. Two were from Colombia, one of ordinary appear- 

 ance, but the other a beautifully shaped one, quite Italian greyhound in the 

 fineness of the lines. Each head was five and one-half inches actual meas- 

 urement of bone. From another section of the coast came a distinctly 

 different skull. Across the only two molars left in the jaws, massive strong 

 teeth, it measured two and one-half inches, and the length of skull was only 

 four and one-half inches. Peluchucco yielded two medium-shaped skulls 

 in a good state of preservation, and from Charassani came one of marked 

 difference. Across the molars from outside to outside the width was but 

 one inch and three-quarters, while the length of head-bone was six and one- 

 half inches. The profile was very striking, there being not the slightest 

 semblance of stop, but a perfectly flat head drooping slightly to the occiput 

 — a miniature Russian wolf-hound head. From the size of the teeth it was 

 the head of a mature dog. 



Taking these relics as a whole, coupled with some fragmentary bone 



