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species of their own country, and that in course of time, as 
certain nations became more civilized, their Dogs were more 
und more adapted to their various requirements by careful 
breeding, and by the selection and perpetuation of the most 
useful varieties, until many of them ceased to show resemblance 
to their far-distant wild ancestors. 
Ill support of this view, the fact may be adduced that at the 
present day, among savage and primitive tribes, the tame Dogs 
bear a striking resemblance to the wild species found in their 
countrv. Thus the Eskimo Do«: resembles the jSTorth-American 
Wolf (Cams lupus nuhilus'), the Hare-Indian Dog the Coyote or 
Prairie-Wolf (C. latraiis), while in British Guiana the natives 
ure known to train and domesticate tlie indio’enous Wild Dogs. 
In the Old World the Hungarian Sheep-Dog might be readily 
mistaken for the European Wolf (Canis lupus^^ the Street-Dogs 
of Constantinople and Cairo for Jackals, and certain of the 
Indian Pariah Dogs for individuals of the Indian Wolf (Canis 
pallipes'). The Bushmen of South Africa have a tame Dog 
which agrees in many of its characters with the Black-backed 
Jackal (Canis rnesomelas) of that region. 
There accordingly seems little doubt that these tame or semi- 
domesticated Dogs are individuals of the same stock as the wild 
species of the country, with which indeed they readily mix 
whenever they cease to be under the control of their masters. 
In more civilized countries the process of domestication and 
selection has gone so very much further that the Dogs have 
gradually lost nearly all traces of their wild ancestry, and 
developed into the innumerable different breeds now existing, 
breeds so distinct that, were they natural instead of artificial, 
they would be referred to several different genera. Repre- 
sentatives of a large number of these breeds, inclusive of the 
Pariah Dogs of India and Egypt, and of the Dingo, or 
Australian Dog, are exhibited in the North Hall with the other 
domesticated animals. 
Dogs were domesticated by Man long before the earliest 
records of history, their remains being found in association 
with the rude implements of the ancient cave and lake dwellers 
of Central Europe. 
