300 British Dogs. 



length of head from occiput to tip of nose, 6fin. ; girth of muzzle mid- 

 way between eyes and tip of nose, 6in. 



Mr. J. C. Tinne's Vixen : Weight, I71b. ; height at shoulder, 14in. ; 

 length from nose to set on of tail, 2 Sin. ; girth of chest, l$iin. ; girth of 

 loin, 14fin. ; girth of head, llfin. ; girth of arm, 5fin. ; girth of fore- 

 arm, 41in. ; length of head from occiput to tip of nose, 7|in. ; girth of 

 muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 7in. 



CHAPTER XVIII. THE WIRE-HAIRED FOX 

 TERRIER. 



BY W. ALLISON. 



IT is not unfrequently said and written that the fox terrier is a com- 

 paratively modern invention, and that he was compounded from various 

 elements, such as beagle, old English terrier, bulldog, &c., at no very 

 remote date. 



This, as a matter of fact, is very far from the truth, for whatever 

 foolish persons have done in the way of manufacturing the breed for 

 show purposes, the fox terrier, pure and simple, is in fact the old 

 English terrier. As a proof of this let me quote Dr. John Kaye, or 

 Caius, as he called himself, who was physician to Edward VI,, 

 Mary, and Elizabeth, and amongst other works wrote one on English 

 dogs. The title page runs thus : " Of English Dogges, by John Caius 

 Doctor of Phisicke in the Universitie of Cambridge, 1576. lohannes 

 Caius a profound clerke and a ravenous devourer of learning, was requested 

 by Conradus Gesnerus to write a treatise on the dogges of England." 

 Then follows the list of them, which classes the " Terrare " with the 

 " Harier " and the " Bludhunde," under the denomination " Hunde/' 



Writing then "of the dogge called a Terrar," he says :" Another 

 sort there is which hunteth the foxe and the badger or greye onely, whom 

 we call terrars, because they (after the manner and custome of ferrets in 

 searching for connyes), creep in to the grounde, and by that meanes make 



