AM>K\: I)<)(;s or THK AMKKKAN AMOHKilXKS. 49o 



sought. liuU't'd Fit/roy wrote that "it is \\(>II asc-crtaiiicd that the 

 oldest Avonioii of the tribe ar(> sacrificed to tlie cannibal appetites of 

 their countrymen rather than destroy a singh' dog. 'Dogs,' say they 

 N-atch otters; old women are good for nothing.'" They are vigilant 

 watch-<logs, barking furiously at a stranger. Their small size, and 

 conse<juent adaptability as canoe companions, are no doubt the chief 

 cause for their preference by the Canoe Indians of the west Patagonian 

 Archipelago, over the larger dogs found among the so-called Foot 

 Indians of the mainland and the eastern and inland parts of Tierra 

 <lcl Fuego. 



Remarks. — In the absence of specimens for comparison, it is not 

 altogether clear that the P'uegiai\ Dog can be satisfactorily distin- 

 guished except in minor particulars from the Techichi or .\lco of Peru 

 and Mexico. Molina apparently thought it identical. In general it 

 appears closely similar, but perhaps of more slender build, a bushier 

 tail with recurved tip, well-palmated feet and a shaggier coat, though 

 F^itzroy speaks of variation in this last character. 



In his Bibliography of the Fuegian tribes. Cooper (1917, p. 186) 

 has summarized the references to dogs in the literature referring to 

 these people. As early as 1557, or perhaps 1553, the Chonos at the 

 northern end of the Chilian Archipelago, were credited Avith having 

 dogs, as appears from Goicueta on the authority of Cortes Hojea. 

 The first mention of dogs in the Strait of ^Magellan appears to be 

 that of Narbrough, who in 1670, found the natives of the Elizabeth 

 Islands \u possession of large mongrel dogs of several colors. He 

 compared them to the race of Spanish dogs he had found among the 

 Patagonians of Port Julian. Probably these were not of native stock. 

 Twenty-six \ears later de Gennes saw five or six small dogs among the 

 Alacalufs of Port Famine. The Manekenkn met by the first Cook 

 expedition in 1769 at Good Success Bay, southeast end of Tierra del 

 Fuego, had dogs about two feet high with sharp ears; they all l)arked. 

 The small dog here described is apparently found among the so-called 

 Canoe Indians of the western archipelago, the Yahgans and Alacalufs, 

 the most southerly tribes of men in the world. 



SlIOHT-XOSED IXDIAX DoG. 



Plates 6, 11. 



1885. Pachycyon robustus J. A. Allen, Mem. M. C. Z., 10, 13 ])p., 3 pis. 

 1885. Ccmis ingae vertagus Nehring, Sitzb. Gesellsch. naturf. freunde Berlin, 

 p. 5-13 (not Canis fann'liaris rertagut^ Linne, Syst. nat., 12th ed., 1766, 1, p. 

 57. 



