HOARY AGUARA DOG. 951 
to all the feet; the inner claws largest and sharp ; 
the rictus of the mouth opened to a great depth, 
and the physiognomy resembled that of a small 
wolf. This animal was covered with loose coarse 
hair on the neck, body, and hams, whitish inter- 
mixed with sandy clouds, and the tips of many 
hairs black, particularly on the back: the legs were 
pale fulvous; the tail was scantily supplied with 
long hairs, black above, whitish beneath. It dif- 
fered only from the domestic breeds in being some- 
what darker and larger. In the domestic we observed 
likewise that the palate was black, and the edge of 
the lower lip of the same colour, but more deeply 
indented and broader than in the dogs of Europe. 
It may be that this is the Canis thous of Linneus, 
and that his characters of a wart above the eyes 
should have been given as lelow, and the ciliated 
tongue may refer to the jagged under lip, mistated 
through inadvertence by his informant. 
