Canide
a family of mammals belonging to the order Carnivora, and the section Digitigrada. The muzzle is more or less pointed, the tongue smooth, and the claws non-retractile, the last-named character distinguishing it from the Felidæ. The fore feet have five toes each, and the hind ones four. It contains the dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals. It is akin to the Hyænidæ. Canidæ have been found in the Eocene, but this may not have been the first appearance of the family in geological time. There are fossil as well as recent genera known.
CANIGON (kä-nē-gon'), one of the peaks of the Pyrenees in France. It is the department Pyrénées-Orientales, 24 miles from Perpignan; height, 9,137 feet. an