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have curly hair. Other varieties occur with either long or short 

 smooth hair, with bristling or rough hair, curly hair, or with a nearly 

 naked skin ; the latter generally also have imperfect teeth, or teeth 

 that early decay or drop out. 



1. Straight-haired . 



Large-sized . . . 

 Small-sized . . . 



2. Soft silky hair. . , 



3. Soft curly hair . 



4. Haish wiry hair , 



5. Naked or nearly so, 



6. Short - legged or 



Turnspit. 



7. Bull-head with im 



perfect upper jaw. 



8. Small variety . . , 



9. Large-eyed Dog , 



Greyhound , 



Deerhound. 

 Italian Greyhound 

 Thibet Greyhound 



Irish Greyhound. . 

 Naked Greyhound 



Black - and - 

 Terrier. 



Toy Terrier. 



tan 



Wiry or rough- 

 haired Terrier. 

 Naked Terrier. . 

 Turnspit Dog . . 

 Scotch Terrier. 

 Bull-Dog 



Bull-Terrier. 

 Pug-Dog . . . 



Toy Terrier. . 



Spaniel. 



Spaniel. 

 Poodle. 



Naked Spaniel. 

 Turnspit Dog. 



Kins 



; Charles 

 ipaniel. 



Japan Sleeve- 

 Dog &c. 

 Japan Sleeve- 

 Dog. 



Some varieties are malformations, as (1) the BuU-Dog and the 

 Pug Dog have a short, imperfect upper jaw and a broken nose ; but 

 this malformation occurs as a subvariety among Spaniels, as in the 

 Japanese Sleeve-Dog ; and (2) other Dogs (continued by breeding) 

 have the Ups, on the sides of the mouth, very large and pendulous, 

 as the Mastiff. Several varieties also occur presenting (3) short- 

 legged long-bodied breeds, — as the Turnspit, the Scotch Terrier, 

 and the MufF-Dogs or Short-legged Spaniels. There is another 

 variety (4) with very large, protruding eyes, which, in some of 

 the Dogs of Japan, where this breed is esteemed, are sometimes 

 so large and prominent as to be easUy knocked out of the orbit by 

 accident. 



The Domestic Dog presents three distinct foi-ms of ears. (1) Some, 

 as the Spitz Dog, have short ovate, erect, hairy ears ; (2) others, 

 like the Greyhound, have elongated ears that are folded together, 

 bent backward on the sides of the head ; whUe (3) the Hound and 

 Spaniels have broad ears bent down on the sides of the head. 

 When the varieties with different forms of ears are bred together, 

 intermediate forms may be observed. 



The tail, in most varieties, is elongated, tapering and generally 

 white at the end ; it is often more or less curved, and sometimes 

 closely spirally bent. But the tails of many Domestic Dogs are cut; 

 and some few breeds are said to be bom tailless. But I have never 

 seen any examples of the latter. 



Varieties which are very distinct in their external form, length 

 and kind of hair, and colour, have skulls so alike that they are not 

 to be distinguished by any appreciable character. Thus it is im- 

 possible to distinguish the skull of a Terrier from that of a Spaniel, 



