156 Bloodhound, Irish Greyhound. 



This notice, though unimportant in itself, if you think it 

 worthy of a place in your Magazine, may, probably, lead to 

 further experiments, and to other useful applications of the 

 gas than merely the light from its brilliant flames. 



Old Kent Road, Jan. 1. 1836. 



Art. X. Queries and Answers. 



The Bloodhound in Britain. — In a brief but interesting 

 sketch by Mr. Swainson on the zoology of Great Britain, 

 published in Hugh Murray's Encyclopaedia of Geography, it 

 is stated that the bloodhound, though formerly in high repute, 

 and used to track out and bring marauders and other cri- 

 minals within the grasp of the law, is now extinct. Is not 

 this a mistake? I remember that, in the spring of 1830, 

 whilst bird-nesting in the beautiful plantations round about 

 Dunkeld, in the Highlands, the Duke of AthoPs gamekeeper 

 offered me for sale two noble-looking dogs, with bluntish 

 muzzles and broad slouching ears, which he stated to be the 

 offspring of a female staghound and a male bloodhound. He 

 mentioned having had several of these dogs at different times 

 in his possession. Perhaps some of your Perthshire readers 

 will question him further on the subject ; as I was not aware, 

 at the time, that the bloodhound was so very rare, much less 

 that it was extinct. I saw none of these dogs in the Pyrenees, 

 nor in Spain, though the latter country contains a great variety 

 of races of that useful and faithful quadruped. 



The Lish Greyhound, inhere can it be seen alive in Ireland t 

 — In the same work, it is stated that the breed of the great 

 Irish greyhound is still kept up in a few parks in Ireland ; but 

 the names of the parks, or of the counties in which they occur, 

 are not given. Some of your readers will, perhaps, be kind 

 enough to supply the desired information. Ought not natu- 

 ralists always to mention the exact localities where rare animals, 

 plants, or minerals are to be met with ? By so doing they 

 would confer a great obligation on wanderers like myself. 

 Most amateurs, I presume, would stroll many a mile out of 

 their road to get a glimpse of such a powerful, stately, ma- 

 jestic-looking quadruped as the Irish greyhound has always 

 been represented to be. — Wm. Perceval Hunter. Sandgate, 

 July 10. 1835. 



«* Incendiaries discovered by Bloodhounds. — The old me- 

 thod of tracing perpetrators of any crime was, a short time 

 since, revived with great success in Oxfordshire. The Duke 

 of Marlborough has, in addition to the famous Blenheim 



