CANIS, or DOG. See MAMMALIA Index.
Canis Major, the Great Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, below Orion's feet, though somewhat to the westward of him; whose stars Ptolemy makes 29; Tycho observed only 13; Hevelius 21; in the Britannic catalogue they are 31.
Canis Minor, the Little Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; called also by the Greeks, Procyon, and by the Latins Antecanis and Canicula. The stars in the constellation Canis Minor, are in Ptolemy's catalogue, 2; in Tycho's, 5; in Hevelius's, 13; and in the British catalogue, 14.