230 Modern Dogs. 



one or two heavily coloured dogs of great merit 

 have been shown in this country. 



According to our English notion of awarding 

 points I should make those of the Borzoi as follows : 



Value. 



Head and muzzle 15 



Eyes and ears 10 



Neck and chest 10 



Back and loins 15 



Ribs 5 



55 



Value. 



Thighs and hocks 10 



Legs and feet 10 



Stern 5 



Coat 5 



General symmetry 15 



45 



Grand Total 100. 



The height for a dog should be from 28 inches to 

 3 1 inches at the shoulder ; a bitch about two inches 

 smaller. Weight, a dog, from 75lb. to loolb. ; a 

 bitch, from 6olb. to 75lb. 



I do not know that measurements are, as a rule, 

 any great guide in determining excellence, still the 

 following figures relating to the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley's 

 well known Krilutt, and published in the Dog Owner's 

 Annual for 1892, will give some idea as to what 

 a perfect Borzoi ought to be when analysed 

 statistically in inches : " Length of head, 1 1^ inches; 

 from occiput to between shoulders, 11^; between 

 shoulders to between hips, 23 ; between hips to set 

 on of tail, 6| ; length of tail, 21 inches ; total length, 

 73^ inches. Height at shoulders, 30^ inches ; girth 



