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CARNIVORES. 



animal, exhibiting a kind of degradation from overbreeding. One of these brought 

 to England about 1867 was a slender-legged animal with very long hair, and the 

 bushy tail closely curled over its back. The face was extremely short, and tlie jaws 

 very feeble, with only a single pair of incisor teeth in the lower one. This pug 

 lived chiefly on vegetables, and exhibited a special partiality for cucumbers. 



This dog is a magnificent animal, usually placed among tlie 

 mastifts, with which it agi-ees in the general physiognomy, and 

 especially the large pendulous upper lips, or " flews," as they ai'e technically 

 termed. It differs, however, from all other members of the group by its coat of long 



Tibet Dog. 



TIBET DOG (^ nat. size). 



shaggy hair, witli a thick umlei 

 the back. The de\'elopment of 

 character due to the nature of 

 native. Tlie expression of the 

 siniken eyes, overhanging eyebr 

 forehead and cheeks is thrown, 

 ment of hair is on the throat 

 entirely black, black-and-tan, or 

 European dogs. 



-fur, and the large bushy tail, carried curled over 

 this thick pelage is, however, probably an adaptive 

 the winter climate of the regions of which it is a 

 countenance is stern and fierce, from the deeply- 

 ows, and the deep folds into which the skin of the 

 The ears are pendent ; and ' the greatest develop- 

 and chest. In colour these dogs may be either 

 tan ; and in size they are fully equal to the largest 



The Tibet dog is used as a watch-dog in the villages and encampments in the 



