222 Modern Dogs. 



challenge class, and Oudar was first in a division for 

 novices, and noAV he will be well cared for in the 

 kennels of The Duchess of Newcastle at Clumber. 

 He went into her Grace's possession for, I believe, 

 ^"200, and is a portion of one of the finest collections 

 of the Russian wolfhound ever brought together in 

 this country. At the time of writing there are over 

 fifty specimens of the variety kennelled at Clumber 

 including several especially fine dogs and bitches. 

 Mr. Summerson's dog Koat, now known as Mr. 

 W. E. Allcock's H'Vat, is another good specimen. 

 Argos (Mr. O. H. Blees's), a black and tan in 

 colour, is also a very nice hound, excepting so 

 far as the colour goes, which is not good. The 

 owner of the last named Borzoi, who is a Russian, 

 has repeatedly been an exhibitor in this country, and 

 at the Kennel Club's show, in 1891, he took first, 

 second, and third prizes in dogs, but was not so 

 successful in bitches, where Mr. F. Lowe won, with 

 a powerful and excellent specimen he had brought 

 with him from Russia, and called Roussalka. She 

 would, no doubt, have been useful here, but, un- 

 fortunately, died soon after the show. Colonel 

 Wellesley's bitch, Pagooba, and Mr. K. Muir's dog, 

 Pwlai, are both hounds of a very high class, the 

 latter darker in colour, and built " on less gallopping 

 lines " than his kennel companion, Korotai. 



