338 Modern Dogs. 



attention to the Gordon setter, and at times has 

 had excellent specimens. The gallant colonel 

 repeatedly sends a dog or two to compete at the 

 Field Trials, and where he has often judged, but I 

 cannot call to mind any occasion upon which he 

 had run a black and tan setter in public. No doubt 

 had he had one fast enough and smart enough for 

 the purpose he would have done so. Messrs. 

 Greenbank, of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, have on occa- 

 sions exhibited a good specimen or two, their White 

 Heather II. being a particularly smart dog. At Maid- 

 stone, in Kent, Mr. J. R. Tatham is an admirer of the 

 breed, and possesses several ; so does Mr Manning^ 

 at Norwood the secretary of the specialist club. 



Another very old strain of Gordon setters is in the 

 kennels of the Earl of Cawdor, at Cawdor Castle, 

 Nairn. They have been there and highly valued 

 about as long as similar dogs have been at Gordon 

 Castle, and for a period of at least eighty years 

 kept pretty well free from cross with the 

 English or Irish varieties. Some of the dogs are 

 heavily marked with black and tan, but none are 

 without some white tricolours in fact handsome 

 animals in appearance, and reliable to shoot over. 

 At Beaufort Castle, Beauley, N.B., Lord Lovat has 

 a similar strain, which has been in his family for 

 many generations. 



