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white variety kept by the Malcolms at Poltalloch, in 

 Argyllshire, where the strain is carefully preserved. 

 These terriers only differ in colour from the ordinary 

 Scottish terrier. A white puppy occasionally appears 

 in a litter of the latter as it does sometimes in deer- 

 hounds Of course, if these white puppies were 

 reared and bred from, a strain of that colour would 

 eventually be perpetuated, and probably this has been 

 the case in the first instance at Poltalloch. Some 

 years ago Mr. Thomson Gray procured a white 

 bitch of pure pedigree for Captain Keene, a well- 

 known member of the Kennel Club. I have a 

 portrait of her by me now, and she is certainly a 

 Scottish terrier in every particular, and a great 

 favourite with her owner, who entered her in the 

 " Stud Book" as White Heather. From her, Cap- 

 tain Keene has had three litters to ordinary coloured 

 dogs of the breed, but not one of the puppies has 

 yet taken after their dam, all of them, strangely 

 enough, being either black or very dark brindle. 



It is a somewhat remarkable fact that this white 

 Scottish terrier is occasionally produced in the 

 ordinary course from dark coloured parents ; the 

 Scottish deerhound likewise, but not frequently, 

 throws a similar puppy in the same way, and Mr. 

 J. Pratt has been successful in breeding two or three 

 Skye terriers pretty nearly pure white. In alluding 



