VARIETIES OF THE DOG. 



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CHAPTER II. 



THE VARIETIES OF THE DOG. 



THE THIBET DOG. 



FIRST DIVISION. 



The head more or less elongated, the parietal bones widest at the base 

 and gradually approaching to each other as they ascend, and the condyls 

 of the lower jaw being on the same line with the upper molar teeth. 



To this division belong the greater number of the 



WILD DOGS. 



The wild dog, as existing in considerable numbers or communities, 

 seems to be nearly extirpated in the southern parts of Europe ; but there 

 are several cases on record of dogs, having assumed the character of the 

 wild race from which they had descended, abandoning their state of 

 domestication, and reasserting their native independence. A black grey- 

 hound bitch, belonging to a gentleman in Scarisbrick, in Lancashire, though 



