DR. CAIUS AND LINN&US. 



Canis Pastoralis, or 



the Shepherd's Dogge. 



The Mastive, or 



Bandogge, 

 called Canis Villaticus, 



or 

 Carbenarius. 



In the sixth section are the 



which hath 

 sundry names 

 derived from 



sundry 



circumstances, 

 as 



The Keeper's or Watchman's. 



The Butcher's Dogge. 



The Messinger's or Carrier's. 



The Mooner. 



The Water Drawer. 



The Tinker's Curr. 



The Fencer. 



Admonitor, or Wapp. 

 Vernerpator, or Turncspet. 

 Saltator, or Dauncer. 



The varieties of dogs contained in these six sections prove that there was at all 

 events a considerable increase in the number of the breeds of dogs between Dr. Caius's time 

 and that of Dame Berners. The former, however, is extremely vague and rambling in many 

 of his statements concerning the dogs he describes in his work ; but the value to be attached to 

 that will scarcely be diminished by this fault on his part, when it is remembered that Dr. Caius's 

 work is the first book published in the English language which solely confines itself to the various 

 breeds of dogs, and the manner of hunting them. 



Shakespeare seems to have been a student of Dame Juliana Berners' work, for in King Lear, 

 Act III., scene 6, the following lines occur: 



" Be thy mouth or black or white, 

 Tooth that poisons, if it bite. 

 Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, 

 Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, 

 Or bobtail tike, or trundle tail, 

 Tom will make them weep and wail ; 

 For, with throwing thus my head, 

 Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled." 



Linnanis, in his classification of animals, enumerates the following breeds of dogs : 



Canis Familiaris, or Faithful Dog. 

 Canis Domesticus, or Shepherd's Dog. 

 Canis Pomeranus, or Pomeranian. 



(The above being the Chien Loup, or Wolf-dog of Button.) 

 Canis Sibiricus, or Siberian Dog. 

 Canis Islandicus, or Iceland Dog. 

 Canis Aquaticus Major, or great Water Dog (Grand 



Barbet). 



Canis Aquaticus Minor, or lesser Water Dog. 

 Canis Brevipilis Pyramc. 

 Canis Parvus Melitans, or little Maltese Dog. 

 Canis Extrarius, or ") 

 Canis Hyspanicus 5 ' 

 Canis Pilosus, or Hairy Maltese Dog. 

 Canis Leoninus, or Lion Dog. 



(This was a small dog, having long hair on the fore-part of the 



body like a lion, the hinder part only growing short hair.) 

 Canis Variegatus, or Little Danish Dog. 

 Canis Hybridus, or Bastard Pug Dog, also called Roquet. 

 Canis Fricator, or Pug Dog. 

 Canis Molossus, or Bulldog. 



Canis Anglicus, sometime Bellicosus, or Mastiff. 



(The above is the Canis Mastious of Ray). 

 Canis Sagax, or German Hound. 

 Canis Gallicus, Hound. 



(Also C. G. Venatorius, or sagacious Hunting Dog.) 

 Canis Scoticus, Bloodhound. 

 Canis Avicularis, Pointer. 

 Canis Aquatilis, Barbet (see above). 

 Canis Cursorius, Greyhound. 

 Canis Hibernicus, Irish Hound. 

 Canis Turcicus, Turkish Hound. 

 Canis Graius, Scotch Hunting Dog. 

 Graius Hirsatus, rough Scotch Hunting Dog. 

 Canis Italtcus, Italian Greyhound. 

 Canis Orientalis, Persian Greyhound. 

 Canis Egyptius, Hairless Greyhound. 

 Cants Laniaris, Lurcher. 

 Canis Fuillus, Boarhound. 

 Canis Vertigus, Turnspit. 

 Canis Amcricanus, the Ala. 

 Canis Antarcticus, New Holland Dog. 



