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inoliirs. and this (.liaractoi' of the sectorial, Cope refers this breed to 

 his };eniis Ovsoihis (Cope, 1879, 1879a) hased on the Japanese Lap- 

 dog, a<lding that " the species may be called Di/sodus gihhus,'" for 

 " the Chihuahua dojj; is the Canis (/ihlnis of Hernandez." The animal 

 to which Hernandez applied the adjective '' (lihcrosits," however, was 

 with little doubt a Raccoon. 



Skrlcfnl RciiKiin.s-. — Among a great number of bones of Indian dogs 

 examined, from moimds, burials, or refuse deposits in various parts of 

 America, there occiu' skulls or fragments of jaws app)ertaining to a 

 wholly different type of dog from the large varieties just described. 

 The remains indicate a small light-limbed animal, with slender muzzle 

 abruptly narrowed in front of the third premolar. Although the 

 surface of the brain-case in adults is roughened for muscular attach- 

 ment the sagittal crest does not develop till old age. All the teeth 

 are small (upper carnassial 14-16.5 mm. in length), the nasals long, 

 and the skull normal, in that it seems not shortened or broadened in 

 any way, the teeth not crovvded. A trans\erse line at the end of the 

 palate falls about through the middle of the second molar. These 

 dogs are probably the third variety of Hernandez, the Techichi or 

 Small Indian Dog. Several skulls, more or less imperfect, from the 

 Madisonville, Ohio, \illage site are referred to this breed, though 

 their measurements are a very little larger than those of more southern 

 specimens. They occur here together with bones of the large type of 

 Indian Dog. An imperfect cranium (M. C. Z. 7,123) collected man\ 

 years ago in McPherson's Cave, Virginia, by Lucien Carr, is apparently 

 in every respect similar to a skull of this type from Pecos, N. M., 

 obtained by Dr. A. V. Kidder in the course of excavating a village site. 

 A similar but slightly smaller, though adult, skull from Pueblo exca- 

 vations in the southwest is practically the same, as is also a skull of 

 the Papago Indian Dog obtained by the late Dr. Edgar A. Mearns 

 at Sonoyta, Sonora, while on the Mexican Boundary Survey. It is 

 not fully adult, though of nearly mature dimensions. What seems to 

 be a dog of this type is represented in the Peabody Museum by a 

 cranium and hind leg-l)ones from Labna, Yucatan; the rostrum is 

 damaged and the teeth lost except the carnassial. The long slender 

 limb-bones are in strong contrast with the short thick bones of the 

 Short-nosed Indian Dog. 



Turning now to South America, the Museum has a cranium from 

 Surinam, labeled: — Carib Indian Dog. It was received through the 

 Boston Society of Natural History from the Wyman Collection, and 

 was probably collected by Dr. F. W. Cragin, some fifty years ago 



