DOG (AS. docga). A carnivorous mammal of the family Canidw, especially the genus Canis, and 'none specifically one that is domesticated. The dog, or dogs, considered as a subject for present purposes, regain, treatment from sev eral points of view, 1. As a tribe, in its zoological relations.
2. As a more limited group, according to the ordinary acceptation of the term 'dog.' 3. As to the relation of domestic dogs to man kind.
The dog tribe includes the whole of the carniv orous family Canidw, for the zoidogical history and character of which see CAxin.E. it embraces a variety of forms which arc divisible into at least live groups: (a ) The long•eared fox-dog (Otoeyon) of South Africa, which is the most generalized menilwr of the family. See Fox-Dog; Orocrox.
lb) The bush-dog (letieyonI of South Amer ica. a specialized aberrant form. See lush Doc.
(e) The foxes. forming what Baxley called the alope•oid or vulpine series, and embracing the typical foxes. fennecs, eorsacs, kit foxes, etc. See Fox: FENNEI', etc.
l'he hunt iIW-dog ( Lycaon) of South Africa. see llt NTI NG-DOG.
I4.) The w.dves. forming MP:Ivy's thoilid or lupine series, in which are found the wolves, jackal-, fox-dogs, crab-eating dog, and similar wild and domestic 'dogs' of the world.
The first four of these sobjeets are trealed of elsewhere, as indieated by the eross-referenees noted above. In the last group (e), wolves, jack als, fox-dogs, etc., many of the individual forms are separately described under their names. There remain then for consideration here: (I) a group which may properly be designated wild dogs, and (•) the domestic dogs.