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The first attempt to take what was not Welsh was the bobtailed sheep 

 dog. That was claimed for Wales because Mr. Lloyd Price, of North Wales, 

 had two of the breed — therefore it must be a Welsh breed; but that claim was 

 dropped when it was clearly proved that the dogs had come from Devon- 

 shire. The next claim of the Welshmen was for this good old English dog, 

 the rough black-and-tan terrier, that all the old writers had described and 

 that Howitt and others etched and drew as the terrier of England. There 

 must have been powerful influence or great ignorance at work when it was 

 decided to change the name to Welsh terrier. Still another claim on the 

 part of a few Welsh fanciers to a title for a genuine English variety is the case 

 of the Welsh springer, or large spaniel, but no one will begrudge them that 

 dog. The Old English terrier is quite another story, and should never 

 have been recognised as anything but what it is, the oldest known and 

 described variety of English terrier. 



A few other varieties have been put forward as breeds, but have never 

 been fully recognised. At one time there was a blue-and-tan variety of the 

 black-and-tan, just as there was the already mentioned liver-and-tan of 

 Daniel's time. The Clydesdale and Paisley terriers have had stronger 

 claims, but they do not seem to have been anything but a fancy variety of 

 Skye terrier, smaller and bred for a silky coat. The Roseneath variety of 

 the Scottish terrier is another of the same sort of claims, a lighter colour being 

 the difference in this case. None of these has, however, been sufficiently 

 recognised in its own country to warrant consideration as a distinct variety 

 at the present time. 



The etching of the Sau-finder we picked up in one of our print-shop 

 researches and bought because of the striking terrier character of this Ger- 

 man dog, though at that time we had never seen any mention of the dog. 

 Recently we came across a reference to Ridinger having given the dog the 

 name of Sau-finder in one of his paintings. That would be about 1735- 

 There is no clue as to date on the etching we copy, nor to what, if any, use 

 it was put as an illustration. Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, who wrote the 

 section on the dogs and allied species in Jardine's Naturalists* Library, 

 classifies the Sau-finder as a terrier, the only terrier mentioned by him as 

 continental, and it was from him we got the information as to Ridinger's 

 painting and nomenclature. A quotation which includes the Sau-finder 

 reference will be found in the chapter on the Skye terrier. 



We are indebted to Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman's reproduction 



