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ON THE DOMESTIC DOG. 



[Jan. 14. 



No3. 1 & 2. Roy. Coll. Surgeons. Nos. 3, 4, 5. Nat. Hist. Miis. 



In the next table are given the measurements of several miscel- 

 laneous specimens. 



Table XXXII. 



Nos. 1 & 2. Chinese dogs ; No. 3. Chinese dog (tame), Nat. Hist. Mus. No. 4. West- 

 Indian dog (almost without hair). No. 5. Dog from New Zealand, Oxford. 



The New-Zealand dog described b)' writers, to an animal of which 

 kind we presume the last-mentioned skull to have belonged, is called 

 Kararahe by Youatt, who states that it was probably introduced into 

 the island by Spaniards from Juan Fernandez. Fitzinger states that 

 the similarity of characteristics between this dog and the great 

 Pariah is so marked as to leave no doubt that the former is a 

 climatic modification of the latter. The naked West-Indian dog is 

 presumably one of the Greyhound family. 



In order to bring the leading points to be drawn from these 

 measurements together, we shall summarize in two further tables 

 the averages of the chief breeds. The tables are drawn up only 

 from those groups of which, at least, three specimens have been 

 examined. The maximum measurement of each breed, the mini- 

 mum, the difference between these two, and the average, are given 

 for each of the several measurements which have been made and 

 detailed in former tables. Table XXXIII. gives those figures which 

 relate to measurements of bones. Table XXXIV. those having to do 

 with the individual teeth. 



