168 HISTORY OF THE DOG. 



English pointer. The Russian pointer is very like the 

 Spanish one in form, except a remarkable peculiarity in 

 the nose, which is so deeply cleft as to appear cut in two, 

 and to procure him the name of the double-nosed pointer. 

 There are various other pointers, and the varieties of the 

 English one in shape, size, and color, are almost endless. 



THE FOX HOUND. 



This species may be said to be, at the present time, 

 the favorite hound in Britain, and great attention has 

 been paid to the breeds; so that, whether in private 

 kennels or in subscription or country packs, there is 

 perhaps no country in which this variety of dog has been 

 brought to so much perfection as in England. These dogs 

 have a keen scent, and the style of their running is very 

 fine, and especially the air with which they carry their 

 heads. Where the ground- will admit of it, fox-hounds run 

 more in rank than any other dogs, and sometimes the col- 

 umn presents a pretty long front in line. The nose of the 

 fox-hound is rather long, and, in proportion to his body, his 

 head is small ; his ears are pendulous and long, but not 

 so much so as those of either the stag-hound or blood- 

 hound. His chest is deep, his legs are very straight, his 

 feet round and well proportioned, his breast wide, his 

 back broad, his shoulders are placed well back, his neck 

 thin, his tail bushy and thick, which he carries high when 

 in the chase. His color is generally white, variously 

 patched with black brown and liver color in different 

 parts of the body. Fox-hounds, and indeed all hounds 

 which are kept for hunting in packs, can be regarded as 

 in only a state of partial domestication. They are, as it 

 were, the military of the race, take the field in squadrons, 

 live apart in their kennels or barracks, and do no civil 

 duties. 



