]20 THE FERAL DOGS. 



noticed, were of the same race; and, therefore, 

 that they are really of a wild species, which has, 

 of its own accord, approximated mankind. Hence, 

 also, may be derived the true street-dogs of all the 

 cities of Western Asia. 



Among the feral dogs of the New "World, men- 

 tion has already been made of the Aguara of the 

 Woods, But there is a race whose origin is not 

 doubtful, and which, although it is said to exist 

 also in South America, v/e denominate the 



FERAL DOG OF ST. DOMINGO. 



Canis Haitensis, H. Smith. 



PLATE L 



The specimen from which the figure and the fol- 

 lowing description were taken, was brought to 

 Spanish-Town, Jamaica, by a French officer taken 

 prisoner when General le Clerc's army endeavoured 

 to escape from the victorious progress of the negroes. 

 The o^vner described it to be a wild hound, of the 

 race formerly used by the Spaniards for their con- 

 quests in the western hemisphere, when they Avere 

 trained like blood- hounds; and a breed of them 

 having been lost in the woods of Haiti, had there 



