420 DOGS USED FOR SPORT. 



which have been adduced on that score are now obsolete. A little 

 white on the chest and a white toe or two are not objected to ; but 

 a decided frill is considered by most judges to be a blemish. The 

 red tan should be shown on lips, cheeks, throat, spot over the eyes, 

 fore legs nearly to the elbows, hind legs up to stifles, and on the 

 under side of the flag, but not running into its long hair. 



POINTS IN JUDGING. 



Head 20 



Neck 5 



Legs 5 



Feet 5 



Coat 10 



Shoulders 15 



Back, loins and hind-quarters 20 



Stern 5 



Color 15 



THE POINTER. 



It is noticeable that we have in America far more well bred 

 setters than pointers, and greater attention seems to have been 

 paid in the last two years in procuring the former blood than the 

 latter. This arises from the fact that the setter is the greater fa- 

 vorite of the two, and justly the choice of the sportsman when he 

 desires a dog that will unflinchingly stand the rough and tumble 

 nature of our shooting. Still, we are sorry to see the balance so 

 much weighed down by the setter, for fear the staunch pointer may 

 be finally crowded out entirely. Of the two, the point of the 

 shorter haired animal is far the most marked when on game, and 

 the training once received by him is always retained, and on each 

 returning shooting season he enters the field to be depended upon 

 while the setter oftener has to be partially rebroken each year ; 

 and if not owned by a sportsman who shoots continually, becomes 

 headstrong and unreliable. 



For the person whose business will not allow him to take his 

 gun in hand but two or three times in the autumn, we advise by all 

 means that his dog should be the pointer ; but for the one who takes 

 advantage of the open season for different game from its beginning 

 to its close, we recommend the setter as best able to bear con- 

 tinued work in all descriptions of cover. 



The short hair of the pointer enables him to do work on the 



