Polynesian Dog — Luomala 
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Fig. 14. "Vue de Honolulu. lies Sandwich” (Vaillant, Album, No. 45, Bishop Museum Negative 20588). 
The mid-1 830’s in Honolulu. A dog follows a Hawaiian couple. 
Jones (1926: 349-350, 355) describes the ears 
as large, pointed at the tips, carried erect, and 
fringed with hairs; tails of wild dogs droop, 
those of pet dogs are usually carried erect; coats 
vary in color, with both black and red mentioned 
by early observers. Wood-Jones gives 1500 mm. 
as the length of the head and the body, but the 
tail is about the same length as that mentioned 
above; height is not given. 
A description of the dingo, which is often 
quoted at second- and third-hand in early zoo- 
logical studies, appears in connection with the 
sketch of the dingo female referred to earlier 
( Fig. 2 1 ). The description (Phillip, 1789: 274- 
275) identifies the animal as "Canis. Dog. Dog 
of New South Wales,” and continues: 
The height of this species, standing erect, is 
rather less than two feet: the length two feet 
and a half. The head is formed much like that of 
a fox , the ears short and erect, with whiskers 
from one to two inches in length on the muzzle. 
The general colour of the upper parts is pale 
brown, growing lighter towards the belly: the 
hind part of the fore legs, and the fore part of 
the hinder ones white, as are the feet of both: 
the tail is of a moderate length, somewhat bushy, 
but in a less degree than that of the fox: the 
teeth are much the same as is usual in the genus, 
as may be seen in the top of the plate where 
the animal is represented. 
This species inhabits New South Wales. The 
specimen from which the annexed plate was 
Fig. 15. Detail of Figure 14 to show a spotted dog 
with prick ears and a long tail. 
