GROUP IV. 



Dogs used with the Gun in questing and retrieving 



Game. 



Including : 



/. The Black Spaniel. 



2. The Cocker. 



j. The Clumber Spaniel. 



4. The Sussex Spaniel. 



5. The Norfolk Spaniel. 



6. The I rishWater Spaniel. 

 j. English Water Spaniel. 



8. The Flat or Wavy- 



coated Retriever. 



9. The Curly-coated Re- 



triever. 



10. The Norfolk Retriever. 

 n. The Russian Retriever. 



In conformation of head this group agrees closely 

 with the preceding one. The spaniels and retrievers, 

 although not so closely allied as the setters and spaniels, 

 are grouped together on the plan already explained. 

 Youatt thus describes the head characteristics of the 

 spaniel family : (( The head moderately elongated, the 

 parietals not approaching from their insertion, but 

 rather diverging, so as to enlarge the cerebral cavities 

 and the frontal sinuses, consequently giving to these 

 dogs greater power of scent and intelligence." 



CHAPTER XXIIL SPANIELS. 



BY CORSINCON. 



THE spaniels, as we now understand the term, are a numerous family, 

 which has by modern breeding become split up into many divisions, most 

 of them pretty clearly defined, but, in some instances, more by arbitrary 



