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should also have to refer the ancient Egvptian-dog, the Oriental 
sireet-dog and the wild dog of Africa. 
ever, are based upon any special reasons. According to Blain- 
ville’s opinion, a diluvial species of a gentle and sociable nature— 
no longer existing in a wild state—must have been the primeval 
form of the domestic dog; but after what has been said above, 
wild forms of the Canide of the Diluvium, and herein he agrees 
with what Darwin and Huxley have. stated regarding the 
bi between the domestic dog and the living jackals and 
wolves, 
It may with certainty be maintained that the direct ancestors 
of the European wolf are to be found in the Diluvial deposits. 
Formerly a huge animal of the wolf species was distinguished as 
the cave-qolf, without there being any distinct character to sepa- 
tate the two forms. A third form of wolf (Canis suesstt, from the 
In now returning to the living Canidz, several species demand 
Our attention, one of which is described as Jcticyon venaticus, a 
ing the countries to the north and north-east of the Altain moun- 
tains, ese dogs do not possess the third molar in the lower 
toe 
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