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the haw. Flews long, thin, and pendulous, the upper lip overhanging the 

 lower one. Neck long, with great quantity of loose skin, or dewlap. The 

 skin of the face should be loose and wrinkled, and when the nose is depressed 

 a roll of loose skin should be seen on the forehead. The coat should be close, 

 but rather silky in texture, and the skin thin. Height, dogs from twenty-five 

 to twenty-seven inches at shoulder, bitches rather less. Shoulders deep and 

 sloping, brisket particularly well let down, forming a sort of keel between the 

 fore legs; loins broad and muscular; powerful, muscular" thighs and second 

 thighs; good legs and round feet, hocks well bent; tapering, lashing stern. 



The color most generally admired now is black and tan, the legs, feet, and 

 all or part of the face being a tan-color, and the back and sides and the upper 



ENGLISH BLOODHOUND PUPPIES. 

 Owned by Mr. J. L. Winchell, Fairhaven, Vermont. 



part of neck and stern black. There is generally a white star on the chest, and 

 a little white on the feet is admissible. Some fifteen years since, it was not at 

 all uncommon to see white flecks on the back making the Hound look as if he 

 had been out in a snow-storm and a white tip to stern. The former pecul- 

 iarity seems, unfortunately, to be quite lost, but the white tip to stern is still 

 sometimes met with. A deep red with tan markings is common; but to my 

 mind, the most beautiful color of all is a tawny, more or less mixed with black 

 on the back. It is, however, rare, and I only know one or two Hounds of this 

 color. The bitch is somewhat smaller than the dog, and in her the head prop- 

 erties are not so fully developed. 



