. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae. With woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by Keulemans and hand-coloured. Canidae. 164 THE DOMESTIC DOG. shortening of the facial portion of the skull, entailing, as it does, a variety of other niodifieations to afford adequate space and attachment for the vigorous muscles which give the animal its prodigious power of grip. Fig. Skull of a Bull-dog. The cranial and dental conditions which are commonh^ found^in different breeds are subject to much variation. Dr. Windle and Mr. John Humphreys, who have gone,
. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae. With woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by Keulemans and hand-coloured. Canidae. 164 THE DOMESTIC DOG. shortening of the facial portion of the skull, entailing, as it does, a variety of other niodifieations to afford adequate space and attachment for the vigorous muscles which give the animal its prodigious power of grip. Fig. Skull of a Bull-dog. The cranial and dental conditions which are commonh^ found^in different breeds are subject to much variation. Dr. Windle and Mr. John Humphreys, who have gone, with exceeding care, into this question, tell us*:—"The range of variation (as to skull and teeth) in any breed is much greater, in almost every case, than that existing between • Troe. Zool. Soc. 1890, pp. 24 & Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. London R. H. Porter
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