FROM THE " SPECTATOR." 211 



ARE DOGS "COLOUR-BLIND"? 



\Jan. 12, 1884.] 



YOUR correspondent, "W. H. O'Shea," has 

 found several dogs " colour-blind," If black 

 is a colour, I can give several instances in 

 which a black retriever dog of mine was 

 certainly not "colour-blind." He had the 

 greatest antipathy to sweeps and coalheavers, 

 and would fly at them if not fastened up or 

 carefully watched. He would even bark at 

 a passing hearse ! In all other respects, he 

 was the best- tempered dog in the world, and 

 I can only imagine that when very young he 

 must have been ill-used by either a sweep or 

 a coalheaver. 



C. R. T. 



