178 THE RED DOGS. 
dentally recorded ;* and Pliny, who collected all 
the information within his reach, without attempt- 
ing much of arrangement or identification, may 
have had that race in view, when he asserts that ail 
animals in a domestic state had their counterparts 
also in a wild condition. These considerations we 
deem sufficient to establish the right of applying 
the name of Chryseus to the present group, and 
even to add to it 
* A family of the name of Montefalcone bore a wolf salient: 
gules. Another of the same name had red dogs for supporters, 
in a collection of blazoned Italian arms in the library of 
St Mark at Venice. 
