[65] W. Scrope, 'Art of Deer-Stalking,' p. 354.
[66] Quoted by Col. Ham. Smith in 'Naturalist's Library,' vol. x. p. 79.
[67] De Blainville, 'Ostéographie, Canidæ,' p. 134. F. Cuvier, 'Annales du Muséum,' tom. xviii. p. 342. In regard to mastiffs, see Col. Ham. Smith, 'Nat Lib.,' vol. x. p. 218. For the Thibet mastiff, see Mr. Hodgson in 'Journal of As. Soc. of Bengal,' vol. i., 1832, p. 342.
[68] 'The Dog,' 1845, p. 186. With respect to diseases, Youatt asserts (p. 167) that the Italian greyhound is "strongly subject" to polypi in the matrix or vagina. The spaniel and pug (p. 182) are most liable to bronchocele. The liability to distemper (p. 232) is extremely different in different breeds. On the distemper, see also Col. Hutchinson on 'Dog Breaking,' 1850, p. 279.
[69] See Youatt on the Dog, p. 15; 'The Veterinary,' London, vol. xi. p. 235.
[70] 'Journal of As. Soc. of Bengal,' vol. iii. p. 19.
[71] 'Travels,' vol. ii. p. 15.
[72] Hodgson, in 'Journal of As. Soc. of Bengal,' vol. i. p. 342.
[73] 'Field Sports of the North of Europe,' vol. ii. p. 165.
[74] 'Hist. Nat. des Mammif., 1855, tom. ii. pp. 66, 67.