ai.i.kn: 1)()(;s oi- iiik \MKKr( a\ ah(>i<I(;im;s. 47.') 



of skull and skok'tal proportions prol)al)ly indicates a ciosci' relation- 

 ship with the lavfier Indian dogs of northern North America, than witli 

 the Wolf or Coyote as Xehrin<r has suggested. 



What may he feral dogs of this hreed are said to he found in the 

 Island of Juan Fernandez, off Peru, .\ceording to Krmel ( ISSII, p. 51^) 

 they are the native Araucarian dogs, shaggy -coated, of medium size, 

 and very powerful. Semitamed ones are sometimes used there in 

 hunting the feral goats. 



Ihering (1013) has recorded the discovery t)f an entire skeleton of a 

 dog at Hualfin, Salta Province, in northwestern Argentina. Its 

 skull measurements, as recorded hy this author, correspond well with 

 the larger of those above given, and his identification of the spex'imen 

 as an Inca Dog is ])rol)at)ly correct. 



LOXG-HAIRKD Ix( A DOG. 



Characters. — Apparently similar to the Inca Dog, htit with longer 

 coat. 



Dutribution. — Peru and probably coastwise to parts of Chile. 



Xotes. — In liis Bibliography of the tribes of Tierra del Fuego and 

 adjacent territories, Cooper (1917, p. 44) mentions "a breed of long- 

 haired shaggy dogs" which was formerly raised among some of the 

 Chonos Indians north of the Taitao Peninsula, Cliile, about Lat. 45° 

 South. Nothing is kno^Ti about these dogs except the statements of 

 Goicueta and Del Techo, based perhaps on independent testimony. 

 It is assumed that tliis breed was of native origin since at that early 

 date (about 1553) it is rather unlikely that such dogs would have 

 been obtained from Europeans. Possibly they were derived from the 

 larger collie-like type of Inca dog anciently found among the Peruvians 

 (Eaton, 1916, p. 49). From the hair of these dogs, the Chonos made 

 short mantles that covered the shoulders and upper part of the trunk. 

 According to Cooper, the information of Goicueta is based on the rela- 

 tion of Cortes Hojea's expedition of 1553-54, when he commanded 

 one of the vessels under Ulloa, and possibly also furnished one of the 

 sources for Del Techo's account. The latter was a Jesuit missionary 

 who wrote in 1673 concerning the labors of liis brethren among the 

 Chonos of the Guaitecas Islands. 



Referable to this breed is probably the long-haired dog described 

 by Nehring (1887a) from a well-preserved mummy found in the course 

 of excavations at Ancon. Peru. It was found -s^Tapped in cloth of 



