54 Mr. Chiklreu on the Esquimaux Dog. 



Art. III. On the Esquimaux Dog. iJ'^ J. G. Children, 

 Esq. F.R.S. L.SiE. F.L.S. S^-c. 



given in tlieir superb work, Ullistoire Naiurelle des Mainmifires, 

 Livi'aison XII. a description and plate of a Dog, under the deno- 

 mination of Chioi des Esquimaux de la Bate de BaJ/in, the mother 

 of which they inform us, was obtained througli the kindness of 

 Dr, Leach. " Nous devous ces precieux animaux a M. le Docteur 

 Leach, qui, en ayant obtenu une femelie pleine, au retour de 

 I'expedition du Capitaine Ross, a bien voulu nous I'enToyer. Cette 

 fcmelle a mis bas trois petits, un male et deux femelles, qui suffi- 

 ront sans doute pour nous conserver une race dont rintelligence 

 et la force, appliquees a nos besoins doraestiques, pourront nous 

 rendre d'utiles services. Aucune de nos races de Chiens, qui se 

 rapporte a cclle-ci, ne sont aussi belles et aussi fortes." 



The figure is that of the young male whelped at I'aris. 



The learned authors of the Mauim/fcres, evidently consider this 

 animal as representing the genuine Esquimaux Dog ; but it ap- 

 pears from Captain Sabine's remarks in his Supplement. to the 

 Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage in 1819 — 20, that the pup- 

 pies which were born at Paris, were the spurious issue of a male 

 Newfoundland Dog and the female of the true Esquimaux race, 

 presented to the French naturalists by Dr. Leach. " By aa 

 omission, doubtless of inadvertency, the keepers of the menagerie 

 were not apprised that the female in question was with young by a 

 Newfoundland Dog belonging to an officer of the Isabella ; and it 

 has unfortunately happened, that the plate of the * Chien des 

 Esquimaux de la Bale de Baffin,' as well as the minute measure- 

 ments and description in the letter-press, are taken, not from the 

 mother, but from one of the young, after it had attained its full 

 growth ; and it is not therefore a representation of a genuine 

 Esquimaux Dog, as the authors designed." yfpp. Mammalia, 

 Art 4. Canis Lupus, p. 186. 



Under these circumstances we have gladly embraced the op- 



