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in logical order would be the Birdsong dogs. 

 These dogs were developed by Mr. Birdsong from 

 a pack of notable Virginia foxhounds owned by 

 Dr. T. Y. Henry. These were all Mountain-Muse 

 dogs from the Irish Maryland strain, and were 

 used by Dr. Henry principally in deer hunting. 

 Mr. Birdsong then bought the dog July and 

 crossed him on these Henry hounds. Longstreet 

 and Hodo were part of the original Henry pack, 

 and so we get the main outlines of the Birdsong 

 strain. 



Coming now to the Walkers, these were also 

 old-style grey fox dogs originally, and, with the 

 advent of the red fox, showed the same lack of 

 the needful speed. As Mr. Walker, senior, was 

 a close friend and county neighbour of General 

 Maupin, the first outcross was to Maupin's Ten- 

 nessee Lead. This dog was a stray, picked up run- 

 ning a deer, but was evidently a foxhound of Eng- 

 lish or Irish descent, very fast and yet having a 

 trailing nose, and he improved the Walker strain 

 immensely. Aside from the importation of 

 Striver and two bitches from England some time 

 later, the Walker strain was kept intact, simply 

 adhering to careful breeding from the best of the 

 Tennessee Lead- Walker pups. 



This covers the principal American foxhound 



