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inches in height. This diminutive creature is beginning to 

 exhibit the moral, as well as the physical infirmities of age ; 

 ne is very testy and irritable, and appears to think himself as 

 well entitled to respect from his canine comrades, and as well 

 able to command it when necessary, as the largest amongst 

 them ; his seems, indeed, " a vast soul in a little carcass." 



THE TURKISH GREYHOUND. 



There are two varieties of this dog, both equally destitute 

 of hair, but one being more decidedly a greyhound, and of 

 superior stature to the other. Color, usually a leaden or 

 dusky purple ; stature of the former breed, about twenty, and 

 the latter about twelve inches. 



Colonel Smith considers this to be the same with the naked 

 dog of Mexico, and the God-dog, formerly worshipped as a 

 deity by the Xauxa and Huanca Indians. This dog is very 

 apt to want the posterior molar teeth, or grinders, at the back 

 of the lower jaw, and sometimes the upper. 



Colonel Smith suggests, that the absence of hair may be 

 caused by chronic mange. I think this very improbable, and 

 that it is far more likely to be the result of a burning sun, in 

 a very dry atmosphere. 



THE TIGER HOUND OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



This is a tall, showy dog, resembling the greyhound close- 

 ly, but somewhat more robustly formed. Color usually a 

 slaty-blue ground, with tan and brown clouds, resembling the 

 markings of the Great Dane. It is, of course, improperly 

 styled " Tiger" hound, as there is no tiger in America that 

 name being given by the natives to the Jaguar, an animal 

 almost equally dangerous and powerful with his Asiatic 

 congener. 



The Tiger hound is not courageous, activity being more 

 called for than courage the latter quality, indeed, being 

 calculated to lead the dogs into unnecessary danger. He 

 usually reaches twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches in height 

 at the shoulder. This dog has not unfrequently been brought 

 to Britain, and passed off as the Spanish bloodhound a dog 

 which he closely resembles in form, s#ve tha the is more like a 

 greyhound. 



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