Altoona, Pa., April 14.—A calf with a dog’s head is the queer freak of nature which for the past ten days has been causing wonderment among the farming population of Mineral Point. The strange object is the offspring of a cow belonging to Charles Page, on Shaffer Hill, and it has been visted by a large number of people.

    Over at E. J. Boucher’s taxidermy rooms in Auburn [Maine] is just such a specimen [i.e., a cow-dog hybrid]. It was brought to Mr. Boucher to be mounted by Dr. J. H. Glover veterinary surgeon in Oxford [Maine]. The animal is in many ways like an ordinary calf. It is long haired, black and white, with the white star on its forehead. The funny little tail is black and white also. The head is abnormally large and most pronouncedly like a bulldog’s. The jaw is heavy and projecting, the eyes are small and bulging, not meek and mild like the ordinary gentle bossy. The ears in size and shape are like a calf’s, but are set far back on the head, near the base of the skull, instead of high on the forehead. There are no traces of horns. The teeth are those of the cow species. The neck is extremely short, unlike the long graceful one found on most farm animals and the head, bulldog-like, rests close to the shoulders. The hips are also those of a dog and the hind legs are stretched straight out behind with the gamble joint reversed. The animal lies stretched out, its forepaws extended and its hind legs straight behind it, like any dog might lie when tired. About as queer looking as anything, are the split hoofs at the base of the short dog legs. The legs to the ordinary observer are those of the dog but the feet present a startling contrast. The calf-dog would stand low from the ground. This specimen was born alive and lived for some three hours.