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 /1TI7Q 9 (Canis Dingo). 



HE Dingoes, or Native dogs of Australia, 

 were at one time very numerous, but 

 their numbers are lessening every year. Being 

 deprived of their natural prey the Kangaroo, 

 Wallaby, Bandicoot, etc., the Dingoes have 

 become very troublesome in the settled dis- 

 tricts, killing the cattle and sheep, and worrying 

 others so severely that many die from exhaustion 

 caused by loss of blood. In consequence of 

 these bad practices, dingoes are constantly 

 poisoned, trapped, and shot, in their native 

 wilds. Often whole families of dingo puppies 

 are destroyed by stockmen when they are 



