256 AGUARA DOG OF THE WOODS. 
upper surface, yellowish beneath, and black at the 
end: the eyelids and muzzle are black, and there 
is an indistinct appearance of two blackish streaks 
on each cheek. 
The attitude of this animal is that of a cur, and 
on comparing our figure of a domestic dog of the 
Indians, taken from a living specimen, with that of 
THE CRABODAGE, OR SURINAM AGUARA DOG, 
Dusicyon sylvestris, 
PLATE XXvV. 
We find such a strict similarity in all, excepting the 
bushy tail, that we believe them to represent the 
same species in the wild and domestic states, and 
that Buffon’s chien des bois is again the same, while 
the chien crabier is a Cerdocyon, or Canis Azara. 
The wild race of these dogs are said to form small 
families of six or eight in company; they hunt 
agoutis, pacas, and wild gallinace. The Indians 
say also that they eat the berries of severai plants, 
particularly those of the houmiri (houmiria bal- 
samifera?); and a solitary cry, sometimes heard in 
the most dense forest, is ascribed to them. 
