Modern Dogs. 



in colour, once distinguished as the Landseer New- 

 foundland, out of honour to the great animal painter 

 of that name, one of whose happiest works was a 

 representative black and white dog, " A Distinguished 

 Member of the Royal Humane Society." However, 

 the Newfoundland Club, which, I suppose, has the 

 management of such things, in order that good 

 specimens that may be brown in colour or black 

 with a little white on their chests or feet are not 

 debarred from competition, classify the " Landseers " 

 under the heading of " any other than black." The 

 " Landseer" proper would be, when properly marked, 

 a black headed dog with a broad strip of white down 

 the face, some white on the cheeks, and a body 

 more or less patched with black. Such are hand- 

 some dogs, and a few years ago, before shows were 

 so firmly established as they are now, the black and 

 white Newfoundlands were more commonly seen 

 than the ordinary black variety. Mr. Mansfield 

 writes of them as follows : 



11 They have not made such progress as the blacks 

 for the simple reason that breeders of this variety 

 will not go to the black dogs to improve the coat 

 and type of their black and whites. They appear to 

 completely ignore the fact that the qualification is 

 not simply a black and white dog with handsome 

 white markings. The marking is a very tenth rate 



