The Setter. 287 



Here the ears are not so long, and generally this 

 illustration is more of the setter than the one first 

 named. 



Strangely enough, this great historian, who bore a 

 reputation for extreme reliability, gives us a third 

 sporting dog of somewhat similar variety. This he 

 describes as " a spotted dog used for taking quail." 

 It has evidently had its tail amputated, or may- 

 be it is a natural " bob- tail" some people are so fond 

 of telling us about. In any case, whether the curtail- 

 ment was natural or artificial, here is a bob-tailed 

 dog, spotted almost as much as a Dalmatian or 

 coach dog, in the act of flushing a bird. Unfortu- 

 nately, Ulysses Aldrovandus does not tell us much 

 about these dogs, but it is interesting to mention 

 them here as early specimens of the dog from 

 Spain, from whence it is said our modern races of 

 setters and spaniels are derived. But when they 

 came from that peninsula, or who introduced them 

 eastward throughout most countries, there is nothing 

 to show. 



Then Conrad Gesner, whom dear old Izaak Walton 

 was so fond of quoting, tells us something about 

 dogs, but not much. Born at Zurich in 1516, he 

 died of the plague in 1565, and between these two 

 dates he wrote his chief work, " Historiae Animalium," 



volume that obtained for him the name of the 



