. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . intances be not vociferous, theirhatred to strangers is intensely so: and it is in the attitude of annoying intruders thatthe annexed wild dog of Persia (Fig. 236) is represented. Dr. Pickering, in the letter from Egypt to Morton before cited [supra, p. 245], afterviewing these semi-wild dogs with the critical eye of a naturalist, aptly remarks: —« By the way, the dogs here 1 find all of one bree
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . intances be not vociferous, theirhatred to strangers is intensely so: and it is in the attitude of annoying intruders thatthe annexed wild dog of Persia (Fig. 236) is represented. Dr. Pickering, in the letter from Egypt to Morton before cited [supra, p. 245], afterviewing these semi-wild dogs with the critical eye of a naturalist, aptly remarks: —« By the way, the dogs here 1 find all of one breed,—the same, if my memory serve me,with a mummied skull presented by Mr. Gliddon [1840] to the National Institute atWashington :—with upright ears, and very much of a jackal, or small wolf, in appear-ance,— often, even in color. They bark, however, as I can well attest, like otherdogs; —and if this be, as alleged by some, a matter of education, there seems to behere no danger of the loss of the art. The G-rey-hound Is a very common animal throughout all Eastern nations, and presents great divergen-cies of external form. Several varieties, probably three, are seen on the monuments of. Persian Wild Dog. 388 HYBRIDITY OF ANIMALS,
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