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The result of Tschudi's researches on the American indi- 

 genous races of dogs is the following. There are two kinds 

 almost specifically different : 1. The Canis caraibicus of 

 Lesson, quite without hair, except a small bunch of white 

 hair on the forehead and at the point of the tail, of a slate 

 grey colour, and silent ; it was found by Columbus in the 

 Antilles, by Cortes in Mexico, and by Pizarro in Peru, 

 where it suffers from the cold of the Cordilleras, but is still 

 abundant in the warmer parts of the country, under the 

 name of perros chinos. 2. The Canis inga3, with pointed 

 nose and pointed ears ; this kind barks : it is now employed 

 in the care of cattle, and shews many varieties of colours, 

 from being crossed with European breeds. The Canis 

 inga3 follows man to the high regions of the Cordilleras. 

 In ancient Peruvian graves his skeleton is sometimes found 

 restiug at the feet of the human mummy. We know how 

 often the carvers of monuments in our own middle ages 

 employed the figure of a dog in this position, as an emblem 

 of fidelity. (J. J. v. Tschudi, Untersuchungen iiber die 

 Fauna Peruana, S. 247-251.) At the very beginning of 

 the Spanish conquests European dogs became wild in the 

 islands of San Domingo and Cuba. (Garcilaso, P. i. 1723, 

 p. 326.) In the prairies between the Meta, the Arauca, and 

 the Apure, voiceless dogs, (perros mudos,) were eaten in the 

 IGth century. Alonso de Herrara, who, in 1535, undertook 

 an expedition to the Orinoco, says the natives called them 

 " Majos" or " Auries." A well - informed traveller, 

 Giesecke, found the same non-barking variety of dog in 

 Greenland. The Esquimaux dogs pass their lives entirely 



