DIVISIONAL ARRANGEMENT OF DOGS. 9 



in accordance with the degree of cunning and scenting powers 

 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. 



F. Cuvier's Divisional Arrangement. 



I.— 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, i . 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 entirely 

 by the eye. Example : the greyhound. 



