220 The Carnivora. 
“ A Dandie Dinmont terrier, after the death of his mistress, 
was playing in a room, into which was brought a photo- 
graph (large) of her that he had never previously seen. It 
was placed upon the floor, leaning against the wall. In the 
words of my informant, who witnessed the incident, the dog, 
when he suddenly caught sight of the picture, crouched 
and trembled all over, his whole body quivering. Then he 
crept along the floor till he reached it, and, seating himself 
before it, began to bark loudly, as if he would say, ‘Why 
don’t you speak to me?’ The picture was moved to other 
parts of the room, and he followed, seating himself before it, 
and repeating his barking.” P. B. M. says: “I have in my 
possession a small picture, in which several dogs are repre- 
sented. A small spaniel was frequently found standing on a 
chair before the picture, and barking at it; and this was the 
only picture of which he took any notice.” 
Mr. Briton Riviére informs me that he has had occasion to 
observe in dogs a very distinct perception of pictorial repre- 
sentations of animals; and Mr. J. T. Nettleship sends me the 
following, in answer to my inquiry as to his experiences in 
this respect: “One Sunday afternoon last November (1883), 
in clear daylight, my wife and I were sitting in the old 
studio in Park-road, with half a dozen friends. My wife 
was seated by the fireplace, to the left as you faced it, and 
she had in her lap a wire-haired fox terrier, about -three 
months old. About 20ft. distant, at the other end of the 
studio, stood a couple of portraits (kitcat size, 36in. by 28in.)— 
one, of a girl seated, with a Yorkshire terrier in her lap; the 
other, of a girl standing, with a black Newfoundland by her 
side. Only the head, chest, and shoulders of the New- 
foundland appeared in the picture, and neither painting was 
framed. We were all talking about anything on earth except 
pictures, when the pup began to growl, and, tumbling off my 
wife’s lap, made towards the two portraits. There. was a 
lion’s skin on the floor between him and them, and he got 
entangled in it, and began to worry it; then he came back, 
