THE NOOTKA DOG. 13o 



with other wool into garments ; and Ave think this 

 dog might be introduced, with beneficial effect, 

 among the peasantry of Norway, if not of Scot- 

 land.* 



THE ALCO. 



Canis AIco, Young. 



PLATE IV. 



This race of dogs, for a long time only known 

 from a wretched figure published by Recchi in 

 the work of Femandes, remains still to be fully 

 made out. Recchi says, his specimen was called 

 Yzi-cuinte potzotli; Fernandes gave it the name 

 of Michua canens ; while that of Alco, accord- 

 ing to Buffon, was generieal. We may ob- 

 serve, in passing, that these names seem all to 

 contain an old designation of dog belonging to the 

 tongues of the old world. The small head, short 

 neck, and very bulky body of the old figure, have 

 not since been recognised ; and Humboldt viewed 

 the Alco to be of the shepherd-dog race. The 



* Vancouver's Voyage to Nootka Soxind. Also personal in- 

 formation from an Indian, who had resided two years at 

 Nootka. 



