. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE DOG FAMILY—DOG. 203 pointed head than in our Hounds. There is, also, a Turnspit, with short and crooked legs, closely resem- bling the existing variety. The most ancient Dog represented on the Egyptian monuments is one of the most singular; it resembles a Greyhound, but has long, pointed ears and a short, curled tail. A variety closely allied to it still exists in northern Africa, for Mr. E. V. Harcourt states that the Arab Boar-Hound is an ecc
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE DOG FAMILY—DOG. 203 pointed head than in our Hounds. There is, also, a Turnspit, with short and crooked legs, closely resem- bling the existing variety. The most ancient Dog represented on the Egyptian monuments is one of the most singular; it resembles a Greyhound, but has long, pointed ears and a short, curled tail. A variety closely allied to it still exists in northern Africa, for Mr. E. V. Harcourt states that the Arab Boar-Hound is an eccentric, hieroglyphic animal, such as Cheops once hunted with, somewhat resem- bling the rough Scotch Deer-Hound. With this most ancient variety a Pariah-like Dog coexisted. We thus see that at a period between four and five thou- sand years ago, various breeds, namely Pariah Dogs, Greyhounds, common Hounds, Mastiffs, house Dogs, lap Dogs and Turnspits existed, more or less closely resembling our present breeds. But there is not sufficient evidence that any of these ancient Dogs belonged to the same identical subva- rieties with our present Dogs. "In Europe the Dog was kept in a domestic state a long time previous to any historical record. The bones of a canine animal were imbedded in the Dan- ish Kitchen-Middens of the Neolithic or Newer- Stone period, and probably belonged to a domestic Dog. This ancient Dog was succeeded in Den- mark, during the Bronze period, by a larger a n d somewhat different Dog, which, during the Iron pe- riod, was replaced by a still larger kind. A medium- sized, domesticated Dog existed in Switzerland in the Neolithic period, which in its skull was about equally remote from the Wolf and the Jackal, and partook of the characters of our Hounds and Setters or Spaniels. During the Bronze period a larger Dog appeared which, judging from his jaws, resembled a Dog of the same age in Denmark. Schmerling found the remains of two notably distinct varieti
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