536 THE AMEEICAN BOOK OF THE DOG. 



In France, the whole-colored variety, especially the 

 blue or black, is preferred, although of late the Tiger as 

 well as the brindled Dogge finds admirers there. At the 

 exhibition at Paris, in 1889, Charles Goute's Tiger bitch 

 Calypso, his Tiger dog Roland II., and his brindled dog 

 Fidelio won lirst prizes. These dogs are very large; and their 

 receiving the highest honors at an exhibition in France, 

 where the smaller, elegantly shaped dog has always been 

 valued highest, indicates a modification of taste in that 

 country, where specimens over thirty inches high were not 

 much thought of. Fidelio, one of the finest specimens 

 known, is a powerful dog, of strong bone, about thirty- 

 four inches high, weighing 183 pounds. He is much 

 admired in France now, though the brindled Dogge is called 

 there, by many, a butcher-dog. 



In England it is entirely different. There the Tiger 

 and the brindled varieties rank highest; great size is 

 highly appreciated there, and Mr. Riego's Cid Campea- 

 dor, a dog of about the same height as Fidelio, is much 

 admired. The admirers of the large specimens will even 

 overlook a little dewlap, which is more frequently found 

 on those over thirty-one inches high than on smaller ones. 

 Besides, we find many very large Dogges with coarse hair 

 and a faulty frame. The yellow-dun Dogge, with black 

 mask, is generally considered the result of a cross with 

 the Mastiff, in England, while in Germany the black mask 

 is a desirable feature, preventing the appearance of red 

 or flesh-colored noses in puppies. .Brindles will often 

 whelp yellow or dun puppies with black masks, which 

 fact proves the erroneousness of the above-mentioned 

 supposition. 



Another erroneous opinion, prevailing in England, is 

 that dew-claws indicate a cross with the smooth- coated 

 St. Bernard. They are not an ornament or a desirable 

 appendage, but are found on specimens of the purest 

 strains. Sometimes they are cumbersome and hurtful; 

 they may grow into the flesh, or the dog may be wounded 

 by them in another manner. Therefore it is advisable 



