O'Eeilly — Notes on the History of the Irish Wolf-Dog, 337 
1623) gives for /^Jr^^ a harrier, a greyhound; and iov galgo, a grey- 
hound. 
On the other hand, few of these dictionaries give, in their English- 
Spanish part, a rendering for wolf-dog. 
Lopez and Bensley give for wolf-dog : — *' Perro de pastor ; especie 
de niastin dotado de mucha aptitud para gnardar los rebanos " (a 
shepherd's dog, a sort of mastiff, endowed with much aptitude for 
guarding flocks). 
Pinedos gives for wolf-dog, lohero, which can hardly be correct, 
since the word simply means pertaining to wolves. 
JSTeumann gives for wolf-dog mastin. 
If now the Portuguese dictionaries be consulted, we should expect 
to meet with the older forms and significations, since the Portuguese 
became detached from the other Latin languages about the 13th 
century. 
In Lacerda's Dictionary (1871, Lisbon) there is given for lelre 
= lehreo (mastiff -dog, greyhound) ; for the English word wolf-dog he 
gives: — ''Rafeiro; mastim; cao de gado ; cao mestico ou gerado do 
cao e da loba." This last explanation is interesting, as pointing to 
the mastiff being a cross between the dog and the wolf. 
The different renderings mentioned do not give a very precise 
signification for the word lehrel, a certain confusion seeming to exist 
as regards the meanings of the words lehrel and galgo. That galgo is 
essentially the greyhound seems clear, both from the general agree- 
ment as to this sense for the word, as also from the connexion which 
is established between galgo and liehre in the different proverbs cited. 
Stevens and Pinedos both give the proverb, " A galgo viejo, echale lielre, 
no conejo''^; with the translation, " Slip an old greyhound after a hare, 
not after a rabbit." Stevens does not say that the Irish greyhound, 
termed lelrel in Spanish, was used for hunting the wolf ; but that 
would result directly from the statement by Eowles already quoted, 
as also by implication from the explanation given for the word by the 
Dictionary of the Eoyal Spanish Academy, as to its being specially used 
for the larger game. 
The explanation given by the Yenetian Dictionary of Fiorentino, 
a swineherd dog, or dog for swine such as come from Prance and 
England," does not contradict Stevens' explanation, and would be in 
agreement with that of the Royal Spanish Academy, since a dog 
which would be used for herding swine in forest districts, where 
acorns are abundant — that is, a mountainous district such as the 
Pyrenees— should be able to cope with wolves; he should therefore 
