NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LOG 105 



THE LION DOG 



Has a mane like a lion, the remainder of the body having 

 close hair ; supposed to have sprung from a cross between 

 the small barbet and naked Turk ; it is a very rare variety, 



and useless. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE third great group of domestic dogs may be best re- 

 presented by the mastiff, of which dogs, indeed, it is ex- 

 clusively composed. This group and the first, or that 

 represented by the greyhounds, 'present the strongest marks 

 of originality. 



THE MASTIFFS. 



The Dog of Thibet. 



The Dog of St. Bernard, or Alpine Mastiff. 



The Spanish, or Cuban Mastiff. 



The Bull-dog. 



The Pug-dog. 



The British Mastiff. 



THE DOG OF THIBET. 



Placed by Mr. Youatt at the head of the first or grey- 

 hound group, but in reality the extreme opposite to that 

 group, presenting all the mastiff attributes to a degree of per- 

 fection amounting almost to exaggeration or caricature. 



The mastiff of Thibet is a dog of vast size, standing from 

 thirty to thirty-three inches in height at the shoulder, and 

 being bulky in proportion. His head is large and broad, 

 and the divergence of the parietal bones is very strongly 

 marked. His lips are very full and pendulous, and the skin 

 from the eyebrows forms a fold towards the outer edge of the 

 eyes ending in the jowl ; the neck is remarkably full, and 

 the chest is furnished with a dewlap. The usual color of 

 this dog is black and tan ; the coat is large and rugged ; the 

 tail very bushy, and carried up over the back. The *igure 

 of this noble dog, given in Mr. Youatt's book, is very good, 

 and most faithfully depicts the animal it is designed to repre- 



