THE RED DOGS. 169 
many and his demon hounds, the Hellequin and 
King Arthur in the forest of Broceliant. 
As we find species of this group in the southern 
part of the Old World, so we find an approximating 
species (or perhaps group) with similar colours, and 
it seems with a like want of the second tubercular 
tooth, in the corresponding latitudes of the New 
World. The Aguara gouzou is the species we 
mean ; and until its manners are better known, we 
may suspect it executes some parts of the same 
duties, although, not being gregarious, it does not 
possess the same efficient means. 
We consider it to be absolutely begging the ques- 
tion, when canines, by travellers called wild dogs, 
are deemed varieties that are descended from the 
domestic, or that may by some chance be their 
offspring, even when in all the country where they 
are observed, the familiar dogs are totally different, 
or are a poor degenerate race when compared with 
the wild. This practice only tends to protract the 
uncertainty, as is evident when we look to the state- 
ments of Viscount de Querhouent, who, we believe, 
first noticed the Canis pictus of authors, and whose 
description continued most pertinaciously to be 
placed with dogs run wild. Sparrman indicates 
both the same animal and the red wild dog, and 
points out a third, which is no doubt the Hyena 
villosa, so lately described by Dr Smith; yet, until 
his figure and description appeared, this also was a 
feral dog ; whereas, if they had been entered in the 
catalogues of naturalists, their existence would have 
