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VARIETIES OF THE DOG.

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CHAPTER II.

THE VARIETIES OF THE DOG.

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THE THIBET DOG.

FIRST DIVISION.

The head more or less elongated, the parietal bones widest at the base and gradually approaching to each other as they ascend, and the condyls of 'the lower jaw being on the same line with the upper molar teeth.

To this division belong the greater number of the

WILD DOGS.

The wild dog, as existing in considerable numbers or communities, seems to be nearly extirpated in the southern parts of Europe; but there are several cases on record of dogs, having assumed the character of the wild race from which they had descended, abandoning their state of domestication, and reasserting their native independence. A black greyhound bitch, belonging to a gentleman in Scarisbrick, in Lancashire, though

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