482 Modern Dogs. 



are in common with the black, though, excepting in 

 the case of the black and tan, the haw, to which 

 exception is taken, is seldom seen. The handsomest 

 colours are the roans, black, tan and white, and the 

 black and white ticked, and the latter is exactly the 

 same colour as the early spaniels drawn for Aldro- 

 vandus, who wrote of them as " pantherius " three 

 hundred and fifty years ago. So, however shape 

 and type may have altered, the colour does not 

 appear to have changed to any very great extent. 



The liver and white variety has somehow or other 

 become identified with the county of Norfolk, and 

 is usually known as the Norfolk spaniel, and dealt 

 with on preceding pages. 



He is, however, common to all parts of the 

 country where such dogs are used for work, and 

 will retrieve, hunt the day out and through, and 

 is not excelled by any of his race as thoroughly a 

 sportsman's dog. Some of the very best rabbiting 

 spaniels I have ever seen were liver and white, and 

 the only fault that could be found with them was 

 more than a tendency to be hard in the mouth. 

 Not an uncommon fault where a dog is employed 

 almost entirely among rabbits, retrieving twenty or 

 thirty couple a day, some of them struggling 

 hard in the mouth and scratching him with 

 their feet. 



