NOTED MASTIFFS. 2O5 



Many people owing to ignorant prejudice, condemn any 

 white on the face, neck, and paws of a mastiff, and great 

 outcry before now has been raised at a judge for selecting 

 white faced specimens as recipients for honours, and some 

 adjudicators in their ignorance, have passed over good 

 specimens on account of such markings. 



In the Illustrated London Xews of December, 1871, there 

 is a portrait drawn by H. Weir, of Peveril, the son of Wallace; 

 he was a light red brindle with a large amount of white on 

 face, neck, flank, chest, and legs ; he also inherited the bar 

 sinister, the dewclaw, showing his Alpine ancestry. There 

 is an excellent coloured engraving by Vaughan Davis, of 

 Wolsey, in part viii of Cassell's Book of the Dog; the likeness 

 to Peveril in head is very marked, and the ears in both fall 

 too close to the head for mastiff purity, while both had the 

 same round faced, stupid cat-like expression. 



To show how rooted and hereditary the white stirp is, my 

 Champion Peeress 2393, came out with much white on her 

 lace, neck, legs, and flank, although her parents and grand- 

 parents were all free from white. Peeress and her sister Juno, 

 who was free from white, when crossed with their half- 

 brother, threw some perfectly white puppies. 



In 1^76 Goddard, A.R.A., painted Champion Xero 2318, 

 bred by Captain, now Sir T. G. F. Hesketh, Bart.; the 

 painting is a full length portrait, and will be one of the means 

 of handing down to posterity the form of one of the finest and 

 most powerful mastiffs that has been produced of late years. 

 It is'not only a splendid picture as a work of art, but a very 

 truthful and striking likeness of the dog, whose worst fault 

 was his want of breadth of skull, his muzzle was remarkably 



