Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 34

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NATIVE DOG

This Animal approaches the Wolf in size and appearance, to which species it certainly bears affinity.  It is of a very savage Nature, but they are caught by the Natives when young and [indecipherable] it by them useful in Hunting. Like the Wolf they are the [indecipherable] fie of sheep and [indecipherable][indecipherable] the Flock amongst which one of them finds its way.
The Native Dog does not Bark. but sends forth an hideous and Melancholy Howling which makes the Hounds [indecipherable].

Native Name, Dingo or Whice