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mestic dogs they seize without hesitation: yet these 
facts, excepting the first, relate to individuals of 
the reclaimed race, not larger than our shepherd's 
dog, or less than two feet high at the shoulder. 
They have the muzzle somewhat fuller, the head 
large ; under fur grey, covered by longer and abun- 
dant hair fulvous or white; the forehead, neck, 
back, and superior side of the tail is dark fulvous ; 
the sides, under part of the throat, and brush paler ; 
all beneath, the inside of the thighs, the legs, and 
nose whitish. We have seen two with the tip of 
the tail white, but the wild race is said to be desti- 
tute of that colour, and many of them are dark 
with shaggy hair;* they carry the tail horizon- 
tally, not curled, bent down when watching, and it 
is only partially furnished with long hair. They 
run, unlike dogs, with the head high, the ears 
erect and turned forward. The specimen at Paris 
could not swim. The parent race is wild all over 
Australia, but an inferior breed is. partially tamed 
by the natives, who make some use of it in hunting 
kangaroos and emus. The young obtained from a 
pair in the Zoological Gardens were all more or less 
spotted with white. 
We understand that there is a strongly marked 
variety or race of these dogs in Van Diemen’s Land. 
* A skin from the Swan River, now before us, measures 4] 
inches to the tail, the tail 12 inches. The fur in colour resem- 
bles the wolf of Asia Minor, but the eyes are very near the 
nose, only 33 inches distant ; the head is small for the size of 
the animal. One recently brought to Plymouth was as large as 
a tall lurcher and resembled that race in make. 
