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the North are owned in Buffalo ; Guernsey county, Ohio ; Mr. 

 Taylor's Connecticut farm ; the Leatherstocking- Club, of Oswego. 

 The points of a fox-hound given in the Fancz'er's Gazette are : 



Head expressive, muscular ; ears pendent ; head a little wrin- 

 kled in chap ; face rather long, with strong jaw ; neck inclined to 

 be long, set into shoulders strongly ; the shoulders of great depth 

 and strength, sloping back well, but not so fine and close at point 

 of shoulder blades as a greyhound, as speed is not required so 

 much as in the greyhound, but rather endurance. A model of a 

 stud fox-hound should measure round behind his shoulders thirty- 

 one to thirty-two inches ; the elbows should be straight, and 

 neither bowed out nor pressed into the chest ; fore leg to continue 

 straight to the foot, as if one bone, but of great substance, full of 

 muscle ; from the pasterns the foot must not turn out, but appear 

 straight and round like ; the back ought to be straight, wide all 

 through ; rigid-backed dogs considered not so pleasant to the eye ; 

 it should be well loined up, not short of ribs, but short in the flank ; 

 body an average depth ; hind quarters, where set into loin, power- 

 ful ; thighs full of muscle ; stern carried well up, but not as a 

 squirrel's ; not feathered ; coat thick and smooth. There are dif- 

 ferent colors, the pie, black and tan, tan and white, and blue 

 grizzles. 



POINTS IN JUDGING. 



Head 15 



Neck 5 



Legs 10 



Feet 15 



Shoulders 15 



Back 10 



Loin 10 



Hind-quarters 15 



Stem 5 



IOC 



HARRIERS. 



The Harrier, as its name implies, is used for hunting the hare, 

 and is nothing more or less than a small fox-hound and would be 

 found a very useful animal for tracking rabbits. The American 

 rabbit is a somewhat different animal from its English cousin ; the 

 latter in a wild state live together in warrens in immense numbers. 

 The warren is a series of burrows or holes in the ground, of ex- 

 tremely irregular construction, and often communicate with each 

 other to a remarkable extent. The American rabbit, so called, on 

 the contrary live together in couples, bring forth their young on 



