GROUP III. 



Vermin Destroyers : The Terriers. 



Including : 



1. The Fox Terrier. 



2. The Wire-haired Fox 



Terrier. 



j. The Dandie Dinmont 

 Terrier. 



4. The Bedlington Terrier. 



5. The Black and Tan 



Terrier. 



6. The Skye Terrier. 



7. The Bull Terrier. 



8. The Scotch Terrier. 



9. The Irish Terrier. 



10. The White English 



Terrier. 



n. The Airedale Terrier. 



12. The A berdeen Terrier. 



Some of the varieties included in this group differ 

 widely from each other in physical characteristics. On 

 the one hand we have the light and nimble black and 

 tan, with a long head and gradually tapering jaw, and 

 on the other the low-legged and very strongly built 

 Dandie Dinmont, with a comparatively large and wide 

 head and more truncated muzzle. All of them, however, 

 closely resemble each other in the work they are mostly 

 kept to, and which, as it is their legitimate business, 

 they take to with most readiness and zest. 



All of them have been, doubtless, much modified from 

 the native terrier of Britain of some centuries ago, 

 and many of them are admittedly manufactured by the 

 admixture of other kinds with the terrier base, yet as 



