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CANIS FAMILIARIS. — Linn. (Var. Borealis. — Desm.) 
Esquimaux Dog. 
PLATE CXIII.— Males. 
C. magnitudine C. Terr® Nov®, capite parvo, auribus erectis, cauda 
comosa, cruribus pedibusque robustioribus, colore cinereo, albo nigroque 
notato. 
CHARACTERS. 
About the size of the Newfoundland dog ; head , small; ears, erect ; tail, 
bushy ; legs and feet, stout ; general colour gray, varied with white and dark 
markings. 
SYNONYMES. 
Canis Familiaris, var. N. Borealis. Desm., Mamm, p. 194. 
Esquimaux Dog. Captain Lyons, Private Journal, pp. 244, 332. 
“ Parry’s Second Voyage, pp. 290 , 358 . 
Canis Familiarts, var. A. Borealis — Esquimaux Dog. F. B. A., p. 75. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head, rather small ; ears, short and pointed ; body, thick and well 
formed ; eye, of moderate size ; feet, clothed with thick short hair con- 
cealing the nails ; tail, bushy, and longest at the end ; hair, long, with 
thick wool beneath. 
COLOUR. 
Muzzle, black ; inner portion of ears, blackish ; top of nose, forehead, a 
space around the eyes, outer edges of ears, cheeks, belly, and legs, whitish ; 
crown of the head, and back, nearly black ; sides, thinly covered with long 
black, and some white, hairs ; underneath there is a shorter dense coat of 
yellowish-gray woolly hair which is partly visible through these long hairs. 
The tail, like the back, is clothed with black and white hairs, the latter 
greatly predominating, especially at the tip. 
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