54 THE DOG IN HEALTH. 



made dogs, provided with a coat admirably adapted to re- 

 sist wet and cold, and so fitting them for entering burrows 

 after their quarry and facing any weather however bleak. 



The Skye is an especially long dog, with an ill-defined 

 outline owing to length of coat. A good Skye should 

 measure in length three times its height. The Scotch is 

 also long, but not in such proportion as the Skye. Both 

 these breeds are more cobby in build than other terriers, 

 and are not adapted for great speed ; with their power- 

 ful limbs, however, such conformation adapts them for 

 forcing quarry from a burrow, while their powerful jaws 

 and teeth make their grip firm and punishing. 



In weight neither breed should exceed twenty pounds ; 

 better if a little less. 



Coat. — In the Scotch terrier proper it is rather short 

 (about two inches), very dense, and extremely hard and 

 wiry. 



In the Skye the hair should be long, straight, shining, 

 like that of a horse's tail ; silkiness, woolliness, or curl to 

 be avoided, though on the top of the head it may approach 

 silkiness. 



Colors. — In the Scotch, steel or iron gray, black bi'indle, 

 brown brindle, gray brindle, black, sandy, and when ton ; 

 ^vhite markings undesirable and not permissible, except a 

 little on chest. 



In the Skye the colors most favored are in their order 

 of preference — steel gray, with black tips to ears and tail ; 

 fa^vn, with dark-brown tips; dark slaty-blue, black, and 

 pure fawn. 



The Skyes are divided into drop-eared and prick-eared, 

 which terms in themselves express the main difference. 



