62 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DOG. 



CHAPTER VI. 



1 us SECOND CLASS of domestic dogs may be most aptly 

 represented by the HOUNDS ; but, from what I have already 

 said in my introductory remarks, it will readily be perceived 

 that not only does this class present less appearance of origin- 

 ality than either of the others, but also that its members will 

 require greater subdivision, in proportion as they, in thrir 

 characters, approach more or less to the first or third classes, 

 viz., to those of greyhounds or mastiffs. Hounds, projx- 

 called, and more properly the true type of this class, must be 

 treated of separately. 



Among the most striking members of the first doubtful por- 

 tion of this second class of dogs, or those that approx 

 most nearly to the greyhound family while they are, at tho 

 same time, by no means true greyhounds I may enumerate 



The Great Danish Dog, type of this group ; 



The Spanish Bloodhom, i ; 



The African Bloodhound ; 



The French Matin ; 



The Feral Dog of St. Domingo ; 



The Cattle Dog of Cuba ; 



The Pariah, or Indian Street Dog ; 



The Mexican Dog, or Taygote ; 



The Wolf.Dog of Florida. 



THE GREAT DANE.* 



This is a dog of gigantic stature ; he is, indeed, perhaps, 

 one of the very largest dogs with which we are at presen* 

 acquainted, standing from thirty to thirty-two inches in 

 height at the shoulder, or even more. In form, the Dane is 

 very powerful, but yet graceful ; his head is elongated, but 

 the muzzle does not taper to a point it is, on the contrary, 

 somewhat truncated, looking as if it had been originally in- 

 tended to be longer, but had been abruptly cut short within 

 an inch of what should have been the muzzle. The coat of 

 the Dane is close and short, and its color, although oc- 



* I may remind ray readers that this dog has also been set forward ac 

 the Irish Wolf-dog. 



