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NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE TIBET DOG. 



This magnificent animal is kept by the Bhoteas, a race inhabiting the table-lands of Tibet, who 

 use it as a watch Dog. It is about the size of a Newfoundland Dog, but with a head more like that 

 of a Mastiff, the " flews," or pendent side-flaps of the upper lip, being of great size. The hair is long, 

 and the tail bushy and well curled. 



Mr. Bennett says of some specimens kept in the Zoological Gardens many years ago, that they 



TIBET DOG. 



" were larger than any English Mastiff we have seen. Their colour was a deep black, slightly clouded 

 on the sides ; their feet and a spot over each eye alone being of a full tawny or bright brown. They 

 had the broad, short, truncated muzfcle of the Mastiff, and lips still more deeply pendulous." In 

 disposition they are at any rate in their native country " tremendously fierce, strong, and noisy ; 

 and while savage by nature, or soured by confinement, so impetuously fierce, that it is unsafe, unless 

 the keepers are near, even to approach their dens." 



This Dog was known to the Greeks and Romans, whose writers mention its fierce conflicts with 

 the Aurochs, the Wild Boar, and even the Lion. 



THE ENGLISH TERRIER. 



This is a small Dog, with a good forehead, prominent eye, pointed muzzle, and usually short hair. 

 The colour varies greatly white and black-and-tan being perhaps the commonest hues ; in the latter 



