SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Comm. Peirop. ii. 367. Loutre du Kamtchatka. Geoff. 

 Col. Mus. 



Icon. Cook's Voy. t. 43. Schreb. t. 128. Steller. I. c. ii. 

 t. 26. Shaw. Zool. t. 101. Ency. Method, t. 79./. 3. 



Inhab. Bering's Strait and Kamtchatka. 



II. Subdivision of the Digtigirades. 

 With two tubercular teeth behind the great carnivorous 

 tooth in the upper jaw. 



Genus Canis. Lin. Incisors f ; canine ^l ; cheek-teeth ff; 

 the three first in the upper jaw ; and the four in the lower 

 trenchant, but small, and called also false molars. The 

 great carnivorous tooth, above bicuspid, with a small tu- 

 bercle on the inner side, that below with the posterior lobe 

 altogether tubercular, and two tuberculous teeth behind 

 each of the great carnivorous teeth. Muzzle elongated, 

 (sometimes rather short in the tame varieties ;) tongue 

 soft ; ears erect, (sometimes pendent in the domestic va- 

 rieties.) Fore feet pentadactylous ; hind feet tetradacty- 

 lous. Teats both inguinal and ventral. 



Dogs, properly speaking. Pupil of the eyes circular. 



370. ]. Canis Familiaris (the Dog.) Tail recurved into 

 an arch ; muzzle more or less lengthened. Fur varying in 

 the nature of its hair. Tail generally tipped with white. 



Canis Familiaris, Lyn. Sys. Nat. i. 56. 



Canis, Gesner. Quad. 91. 



Le Chein, Buffon, Hist. Nat. v. The Dog, Pennant. Quad. 



Icon. Lin. Amcen. Acad. iv. 43. t. \.f. 1. 



This species is exceedingly subject to vary in the form, 

 colour, and quality of the fur. In arranging the varieties, 

 we have followed the method adopted by M. F. Cuvier. 



Sect. I. Head more or less elongated, parietals shelving 

 in an insensible manner towards each other, condyles of 



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