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The Dingo.

 

Heap, OF THE SIZE OF LIFE.

THE opposite life-sized head of the Dingo, or native Australian Dog, is portrayed so faith-
fully, through the talent of Messrs. Richter and Krefft, that I am certain no one will
regret my giving two plates of this animal: whether the head be viewed as a zoological
illustration or as a work of art, it must be equally acceptable.

The natural history of the Dingo is so fully entered into in the letter-press accompanying
the reduced figures, both from my own observation of the animal in a state of nature
and from the writings of previous authors, that to recapitulate them here would be super-
fluous; I therefore refer my readers to that account.

It will be seen that the animal is subject to much variety of colour; I might therefore

have multiplied the plates to almost any extent ; but such a measure would have been of

very questionable utility: I have therefore confined myself to one representing the normal

style of colouring.