THE COMMON GREYHOUND. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes before; four behind (a). 

 Vifage long. 



Synonims. 



Common Grehound, Pennant Syn. Quad. 147. 



Canis graius, Linn. Syjl. 57. 



Canis venaticus graius, Rati Syn. Quad. 176. 



Canis leporarius et Scoticus, Merrett Pinax rer. nat. 168. 



Le Levrier, de Buffbn, xxvii. 



THIS is one of the varieties of that faithful and ufeful animal, the Dog; 

 which, though they are all derived from one common flock, differ from each 

 other as much in their habits as in their general appearance : they are, for the 

 mofl part, flrongly attached to man, and are all capable of rendering him 

 fervice fome way or other. The variety to which our attention is at prefent 

 directed, has always been confidered as a companion for a gentleman, who 

 was formerly known by his Horfe, his Hawk, and his Greyhound ; and it 

 was enacted by the foreft laws of King Canute, that no perfon, under the 

 rank of a gentleman, lhould prefume to keep one. 



(a) This chara&er is invariable in the wild fpecies, as the Wolf, the Fox, &c. but the common Dogs 

 have often five toes on each foot. — Pennant, 



