Poster: FoxFire ~ Jeannine
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Sir William Jardine
Published London 1860
The Naturalists Library
Volume 19
Mammalia dogs volume 2
"Turkmen Watchdog"
This is a large rugged and fierce race, equaling the wolf in statue shaped like a Irish Greyhound and with equally powerful jaws, the ears ERECT the tail rather hairy their color a deep yellowish red and so like the NARTAN wolf.
There were among them a few white & black evidently crossed dogs from another origin
This race extends where the Turkmen or Torkee people reside from Central high Asia to Bosphurus."
NOTE The Irish Grey hound as described in this books does NOT resemble the Today breeds from Ireland.
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