2 5$ Mr. Hunter’s Obfervations on the Species 
who is at Paris, I am convinced he will be very happy to give 
you any further information. 
I am, &c. 
Herbert. 
Buffon, whofe remarks in natural hiftory are well known, 
-made experiments to afcertaiti how far the Wolf and Dog were 
of the fame lpecies, but without fuccefs. He fays, “ A She- 
“ wolf, which I kept three years, although fhut up very 
t£ young, and along with a Greyhound of the fame age, in a 
“ fpacious yard, could not be brought to agree with it, nor 
“ endure it, even when floe was in heat. She was the weakeft, 
“ yet the moil mifehievous ; provoking, attacking, and biting 
“ the Dog, which at firft only defended itfelf, but at laft 
cs killed her.” And in another part of his work, he makes 
the following obfervation : “ The Dog, the Wolf, the Fox, 
“ and the. Jackal, form a genus, of which the different fpe- 
“ cies are really fo nearly allied to each other, and of which 
“ the individuals refemble each other fo much, particularly by 
“ the internal ftrudture and parts of generation, that it is diffi- 
“ cult to conceive why they do not breed together 
This 
* In the Supplement to his Works, he gives the following account which had 
"been fent to him. 44 A veryyoung She-wolf, brought up at the Marquis of Spon- 
41 tin’s, at Namur, had a Dog, of nearly the fame age, kept with it as a 
41 companion. For two years they were at liberty, coming and going about the 
44 apartments, the kitchen, the ftables, &c. lying under the table, and upon the 
u feet of thofe who fat round it. They lived in the greateft familiarity. 
44 The Dog was a ftrong Greyhound. The wolf was fed on milk for fix months ; 
after that, raw meat was given her, which Ihe preferred to that which was 
44 drefled. 
