Modern Dogs. 



Fino VI. has four, Forester has seven, Paris has 

 eight, and Xitta has the same number. 



" In all, except Guinevere, the defunct Fino de 

 Paris might almost have been their real sire, and, 

 as a standing proof of the necessity of inbreeding, 

 the only one that did not resemble him was Guinevere, 

 who has not the amount of blood necessary. 



" To anyone interested in the study of breeding, 

 and especially breeding for individual type, I re- 

 commend them most strongly to get the Basset 

 Hound Stud Book and work out the blood factors of 

 the hounds there inscribed. On comparing them 

 with past show reports and the hounds now on 

 the bench, they will without any difficulty come to 

 the conclusion that there is not a hound in this 

 country worth the biscuits it is fed on, or can 

 show the Fino de Paris type, that is not bred upon 

 the lines I have shown these generations to be. 



" My recollections of Fino de Paris are not such 

 as will entitle me to describe him very accurately, 

 but I may say this viz., that I do not believe, 

 grand hound as he was, that he could have com- 

 pared favourably with the hounds that are on 

 the bench to-day ; and, furthermore, that France 

 could not show a class of such character and type 

 as we can bring together. The proof of this 

 latter statement is to be found in the somewhat 



