Wild dog found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Canis lupus familiaris (Feral dog of St. Domingo, Canis haitensis). Descendant of dogs brought by the Spanish to hunt enslaved Africans. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from his volume on Dogs from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1839.
Wild dog found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Canis lupus familiaris (Feral dog of St. Domingo, Canis haitensis). Descendant of dogs brought by the Spanish to hunt enslaved Africans. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from his volume on Dogs from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1839.