AI>LK\: DOCJS OF TilK AMKUKAX AM(>UI(;|.\ KS. 491 



Hare-Indian Doc. 

 Plate 1, i\g. 2. 



1829. Canis lagopm Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1, p. 78, p\. 5 (not 

 Canis lagopm Linne, 1758, q. e. Alopex). 



1867. Canis domesHcm, lagopm FitzingeT,Sitzh K. akad. wiss. Wien 56 nt 1 

 p. 407. > > I ■ > 



Canis famiUaris orthotm lagopm ReicYvenhsich, Rogn. anim., pt. 1, p. 13. 



Characters.— A small, slender dog, a\ ith erect ears and bushy tail 

 feet broad and well-haired. Color white with dark patches 



Disfribuiion.— Formerly found among the Hare Indians and other 

 tribes that frequented the borders of Great Bear Lake and the banks 

 of the Mackenzie River. 



Description.— This seems to have been a small dog, of the Techichi 

 type. Richardson, who gave a figure and description of it from first- 

 hand acquaintance, characterizes it as slightly larger than a fox but 

 smaller than a coyote, and apparently of rather slender proportions 

 The head was small ^^-ith sharp muzzle, erect thickish ears, somewhat 

 oblique eyes; the tail bushy and sometimes carried curled forward 

 over the right hip, though tliis does not appear in Richardson's fi-ure- 

 foot broad and well-haired. He describes an individual as having the 

 face, muzzle, belly, and legs white; a dark patch over the eye, and on 

 the back and sides, larger patches of dark blackish grav or lead color 

 mixed with fawn and white. Ears white in front, the backs yellowish 

 gray or fawn; tail white beneath and at the tip. 



Notes.- It seems probable that this small breed was lost in the 

 early part of the last century. At all events, writers subsequent to 

 Richardson do not seem to have met with it, and those that mention 

 It, seem to have confused it with the Common Indian Doo- Thus 

 B. R. Ross (1861) and :Macfarlane (1905, p. 700) clearly had'^in mind 

 a different animal; and a skull sent by the latter to the U. S. N M 

 ^slagopus (from Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River) is a large dog, 

 evidently the Common or Larger Indian Dog. Hamilton Smith 

 (1840, p. 131) takes his description in part from Richardson and 

 mentions a pair of these dogs as then living in the Zoological Societv's 

 Cxardens at London. Audubon and Bachman likewise are indebted 

 to Richardson for their account, though their figure, bv J. W. Audu- 

 bon, IS said to be from a stuffed specimen, perhaps one of those pre^•i- 



