The Dingo (Youatt). 



CHAPTER I. 



WILD AND HALF-EECL AIMED DOGS, HUNTING IN PACKS. 



i. The Dingo— 2. The Dhole— 3. The Pariah— 4. The Wild Dog of Africa— 

 5. The North and South American Dog — 6. Other Wild Dogs. 



I.— THE DINGO. 



It is upon the great similarity between these wild dogs and the 

 wolf or fox that the supposition is founded of the general descent 

 of the domesticated dog from either the one or the other. After 

 examining the portrait of the dingo, it will at once be seen that it 

 resembles the fox so closely in the shape of its body, that an 

 ordinary observer could readily mistake it for one of that species, 

 while the head is that of the wolf. The muzzle is long and 



