DOG. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Six cutting teeth, and two canine, in each jaw. 
Five toes before, and four behind ; invariable in the wild 
species. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Canis familiaris. C. cauda (sinistrorsum) recurvata. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 65. 
The tail bent upwards, and towards the left 
side. 
Faithful Dog. . . Sm. Buff. v. 4. p. 1. pi. 26— 46. Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. v. 1. p. 235. Bew. Quadr. 
p. 296. 
Dogs have at least a certain degree of memory. A 
dog is first taught by repeated trials to know some- 
thing by a certain mark, and then to distinguish 
one ace from another ; they frequently offer him 
food on a card he is unacquainted with, after which 
they send him to find it out from the rest, and he 
never mistakes. The habit of profiting by that 
discovery, and receiving caresses, enables him by 
degrees to grow acquainted with each particular 
card, and he brings them with an air of gaiety, 
