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active and remarkably intelligent. The 
dentition is abnormal and imperfect; a 
fact which reminds one of Darwin’s state- 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
usually extremely delicate. It easly blis- 
ters in summer if exposed to the sun, and 
therefore requires to be smeared with grease. 
It is soft to the touch. The colours vary 
from black to slate colour or blue. In 
some specimens it is shrimp pink with 
black, blue, or chocolate spots, in others 
blue and tan, or mottled brown. 
Some are absolutely hairless, but for a 
crest between the ears, coming down as far 
as the stop, and a tuft at the tip of the tail 
of fine silky hair or bristles. Those with a 
tail tuft are believed invariably to have also 
the crest. Occasionally hairs or bristles are 
found between the toes. The small, cloddy 
dogs usually show bristly toes. A pink 
specimen, described by a correspondent, hada 
silky crest of silvery hair eight inches long, 
falling over the neck. This dog had a very 
bushy tail tuft: The colour of the hair 
in the dark dogs usually corresponds with 
the colour of the bald skin. But at times 
the pink or mottled dogs have silvery or 
brown crests. One of the prettiest of the 
hairless dogs seen in recent years was a 
MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG. 
MR. H. C. BROOKE'S 
PADEREWSKI JUNIOR. 
ment that in most ani- 
mals the teeth or horns 
have some relation to 
the growth or absence 
of hair, and that bald 
mammals seldom have 
large horns or tusks, 
while the long coated 
animals, such as_ the 
Highland cattle, the wild 
boars, and the hairy 
mammoth elephant, are 
remarkable for the 
length of their horns or 
tusks. A dry climate 
may have had some 
effect in producing dogs 
without hair. The skin 
of the hairless dogs is 
MEXICAN HAIRLESS AND CRESTED DOG 
MR. H. C. BROOKE'S HAIRY KING. 
