8 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 
which the animal possessing them displays. The following is his 
classification, which in the main is correct, and I shall adhere to 
it with trifling alterations in the pages of this book. 
FF, Cuvier's Divisional Arrangement. 
L—MATINS. 
Characterised by head more or less elongated ; parietal bones 
insensibly approaching each other; condyles of the lower jaw 
placed in a horizontal line, with the upper molar teeth, exempli- 
fied by— 
Skull of Dingo. 
Sect. 1. Half-reclaimed dogs, hunting in packs; such as the 
dingo, the dhole, the pariah, &c. 
Sect 2. Domesticated dogs, hunting in packs, or singly, but using 
the eye in preference to the nose; as, for instance, 
the Albanian dog, deerhound, &c. 
SEcT. 3. Domesticated dogs, which hunt singly, and almost en- 
tirely by the eye. Example: the greyhound. 
IL—SPANIELS. 
Characteristics.—Head moderately elongated ; parietal bones do 
not approach each other above the temples, but diverge and swell 
out, so as to enlarge the forehead and cavity of the brain. 
Sect. 4. Pastoral dogs, or such as are employed for domestic 
purposes. Example: shepherd’s dog. 
Sect. 5. Water dogs, which delight in swimming, Examples: 
Newfoundland dog, water-spaniel, &c. 
