INDEX 



65' 



MALTESE contd. 



ears, 576, 580 



eyes, 576, 580 



grooming, 576 



habitat, 575 



history, 575 



house-dog, 576, 577 



Lion-dog of Malta, Little, 581 



old writers on, 575 



origin, 575 



points, 576 



puppy, selecting, 579 



size, 576, 578, 580, 581 



temperament, 576, 577 



"Terrier," a misnomer, 576 



washing, 577 



"weeping" at corners of eyes, 576 

 Maltese Spaniel, 588 

 Man, association of the dog with, from 



the earliest ages, I, 10 

 Manchester Terrier, 526. See Black- 



and-tan Terrier 

 Manilla Dogs, 575, 576 

 Marbled Collie, 159. See Collie 

 Marled Collie, 159. See Collie 

 Masson Hound, 216 

 MASTIFF, 16 



activity, 25 



ancient British dog resembling, 9 



ancient varieties of, 8, 16 



breeding, 21, 26 



brood bitch, 21 



Bull-Mastiff, 27 



celebrated specimens, 18 



character, 17 



Club, 20, 26 



colours, I7> 27 



cross-bred, 27 



docility, 17 



Dudley nose, 19, 20 



Epirus, 8 



etymology of name, 16 



" expediating," 1 6 



faults, 25 



feeding, 22 



forcing puppies deprecated, 25 



foster-mothers for puppies, 22 



German, 45. See Great Dane 



"hambling," 16 



height, 17 



history, 16 



inbreeding, 22 



*' lawing," 1 6 



Lyme Hall strain, 18 



maiming, in Henry II.'s reign, 16 



muzzle, 25 



MASTIFF contd. 



night-dog, essentials of, 27 



Old English Mastiff Club, 20, 26 



pedigrees, examining, 21 



points, 17, 26 



popularity, declining, 25 



prototype of, 10 



puppies, 17, 22 



puppy, selecting, 25 



Pyrenean, 143 



size, 17, 25 



stud dog, 21 



tenth-century, 9 



Thibet, 28. See Thibet Mastiff 



Tiger, 45. See Great Dane 

 Mediaeval dogs, 9 

 Merled Collie, 1 60. See Collie 

 Midland Fox-terrier Club, 450 

 Miners, Whippets owned by, 96, 99 

 Mirled Collie, 160. See Collie 

 Mivart's " Monograph of the Canidae," 2 

 Modification of type, 177 

 Monuments, ancient dogs shown on, 



4, 9 



" Moulting-room," 426, 448 

 Mustards, 478. See Dandie Dinmont 



Terrier 



N 



Nansen on Northern Dogs, 368 

 National St. Bernard Club, 40, 43 

 Natural history of the dog, 1 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 56 



breeding, 62 



celebrated specimens, 62 



Club, 64 



coat, 62, 64 



colours, 57, 58, 62, 65 



crossbred, 65 



exercise, 64 



expression, 58 



eyes, 62 



feeding, 64 



grooming, 63 



history, 56 



imported specimens, 57 



inbreeding of prize-winners, effects 

 of, 6 1 



indigenous breed, in Newfound- 

 land, 56, 57 



introduction, 56 



Leonberg, 65 



life-saver, 56, 57 



original breed, 56, 58 



points, 64 



