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demeanour and most graceful attitudes make them the richest 

 ornamental hound of the hall and the drawing-room." 



As supplementing the information given by M. Zambaco, in 

 respect of the colour it may be stated that the Circassian Wolfhound 

 is always dark. The colour preferred is dark tawny or black, and 

 fawn on back and other upper parts, shading off into a creamy- 

 fawn, almost white, on belly, lower thighs, and limbs. 



FIG. 40. CIRCASSIAN ORLOFF HOUND, DOMOVOY. 



By some of its admirers the Circassian Wolfhound is believed 

 to be the Siberian transported to the southern mountainous regions, 

 and altered in colour and minor characteristics by centuries of 

 climatic influence This theory, however, is purely conjectural, whilst 

 the structural affinity of both Circassian and Siberian hounds with 

 our Deerhounds and Greyhounds suggest all of them as variations 

 merely, and alike descendants of the same parent stock ; and the 

 little light history throws on the subject points to the Greyhound 

 of the old Celtic tribes as the origin of all. 



