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of chest, 33 ; of narrowest part of " tuck-up," 22 ; 

 girth above stifle bend, 13 ; round stifle, n-|; round 

 hock joint, 6\ ; below that joint, \\ ; round elbow 

 joint, 8J; above that joint, 8f ; girth, midway 

 between elbow and pastern, 6\\ round neck, 17; 

 girth of head round occiput, 16^; girth between 

 occiput and eyes, 16^ ; girth round the eyes, i3f ; 

 and girth of the muzzle between eyes and nose, 

 9 inches. Weight about 981b. 



As to the above, Captain Graham tells me he 

 measured Krilutt carefully on more than one occa- 

 sion, but could not make him more than 29! inches 

 at the shoulders, and I have made his full height 

 bare 30 inches. 



It may be said that I have not entered with 

 sufficient fulness into the history of the Borzoi, as he 

 is known in Russia, and given the names of the 

 various strains some writers claim there are in his 

 native country. We are, however, contented with 

 the animal as we have him here, and to tell his 

 admirers that there is a strain of the hound, known 

 as the Tchistopsovoy Borzoi, another as the Psovoy 

 Borzoi, that the Courland Borzoi is extinct, and 

 other such matter, would be a little too confusing. 

 And really so much has appeared about this dog since 

 his popularisation in this country that is of doubtful 

 truth, care ought to be taken in what is reproduced. 



