GROUP II. 

 Dogs that hunt their Game by scent, and kill. 



Including : 



1. The Bloodhound. 



2. The Foxhound, 

 j. The Otterhound. 

 4. The Harrier. 



5. The Beagle. 



6. The Bassett. 



. The Dachshund 



This group corresponds in head formation -with the 

 second division of M. Cuvier. (C The head moderately 

 elongated, and the parietals diverging from each other 

 for a certain space as they rise upon the side of the 

 head, enlarging the cerebral cavity and the frontal 

 sinus." Many, and notably those nearest approaching 

 the older types, are possessed of deep flews and abun- 

 dance of loose skin about the head and throat. They 

 are heavier in build and slower in pace than those in 

 Group i, and, although in several instances used to quest 

 for game only, the general employment of the group 

 is to hunt by scent only and to kill. 



CHAPTER IX. THE BLOODHOUND. 



BY CORSINCON. 



HE who attempts to discover the origin and trace the history of any 

 one of our breeds of dogs, beyond a comparativly few generations, will, in 

 most or all cases, speedily find himself in a fog, tossed on a sea of doubt, 

 driven hither and thither by the conflicting evidence of the writers he 

 consults, who seem to emulate each other in the meagreness of the inform- 

 ation they give and the vagueness with which they convey it. To this 



