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Show 1890.] ON THE DOMESTIC DOG. 15 Table XVII.-Bloodhounds. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Av. 33 43 a EH 284-70 303-44 312-92 348-33 288-57 307-59 43 g33 as N 158-82 158-62 171-42 191-66 154-28 166-96 •a* 3O3 "oc33 a >, oj a •^ 8 33 142-35 143-44 149-65 171-66 145-71 150-56 ftH 43 O 03 S ft ft" o 33 101-17 99-31 104-76 113-33 90-0 101-71 a =« a PH hi 91-17 100-37 103-40 106-66 90-0 98-52 a # a PH hi 105-88 117-24 114-28 119-16 114-28 114-17 -# a PH hi 23-52 27-58 27-21 30-0 26-42 26-94 . rH a hi 18-23 19-03 18-77 21-16 17-85 19-01 rH | a'l p^q 22-94 24-41 26-25 24-16 21-42 23-83 oil a'l hi 10-0 11-44 11-56 12-5 10-0 11-10 oi i a'l h pq 13-76 16-55 17-95 15-83 14-28 17-67 r-t a hi 31'72 31-97 37-0 31-42 33-27 Ol a hi 10-58 13-51 12-92 14-16 13-57 12-95 CO a hi 6-47 8-27 7-48 9-16 5-71 7-42 No. 1. Roy. Coll. Surgeons. Nos. 2, ., 4 (Manilla), Nat. Hist. Mus. No. 5. Oxford Univ. The F O X H O U N D is, according to ' Stonehenge,' generally supposed to have " been obtained by crossing the old-fashioned hound (whether Northern or Southern) with the Greyhound ; but of this cross there is no record in the kennel books of our earliest Foxhound packs, which trace back for nearly or quite two hundred years. Now, success in breeding generally leads to a confession of the method by which it has been attained, as is exemplified in the case of Lord Oxford with his Bull-dog and Greyhound cross, and it is argued that if the Greyhound had been used as alleged, some record of the fact would have been handed down to us. Hence this point in the history of the Foxhound must be regarded as unsettled." It may be mentioned that Fitzinger believes it to be the produce of a cross between the English hunting-dog and the great Dane. Table XVIII.-Foxhounds. No. 1. 2. Av. 43 as a 0J ftH "3 43 O EH 284-61 281-53 283-07 43 , ?3ft3 153-84 161-53 157'68 ft3 43 0_ft 33-d 43 Q. a >. <D a *.8 153-84 138-46 146-15 . v «tH 43 O 03 s ft ft2 •> 33 100-0 100-0 100-0 a a PH r i 98-46 100-0 99-23 a r J w 1h1i5 -38 107-69 111-53 -#' a PH i 26-15 30-76 28-45 r-H a i 19-23 16-15 17'69 ~l a1 pq oi a i 20-76, 10-0 20-76: 17-69 20-76 13-84 1 oi a'l u pq 14-61 18-46 16-53 IrH la hi 30-76 36-15 33-45 (• IM a i 12-30 13-85 13-07 CO a hi No. 1. Camb. Univ. No. 2. Oxford Univ. A pure H A R R I E R with the exception of the Welsh breeds is, according to ' Stonehenge,' very rare at the present day. The same authority states that this dog shares with the Bloodhound and Otterhound the honour of being the oldest breed of hounds now in England. It is distinguished, amongst other things, from the Fox- |