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base of the nasal bone. They should be quite 

 round, fairly large, neither sunken nor protruding, 

 and intensely dark, showing no white when looking 

 directly forward ; in fact, in the correct bulldog eye 

 the dark brown colour of the iris seems to have run 

 into the sclerotic, which fact accounts in some 

 measure for the white of the eye not being seen. 



" There is another phenomenon which is very 

 typical of the breed that deserves notice, and that is 

 an indescribable dark blue glare, seen especially 

 when a bulldog is excited. I believe that the best 

 word to express this is opalescence. The light 

 hazel or yellow eyes that are now becoming preva- 

 lent are to be deprecated, there being a strong 

 connection between them and Dudley noses. The 

 deformity known as ' wall-eyed/ i.e., one eye of a 

 lighter colour than the other, or eyes in which the 

 iris is whitish, very light grey, or defective in colour, 

 or eyes in which the whites are very large or 

 distorted, is now very rarely seen, probably because 

 it has been so persistently stamped out for many 

 years. 



" What is required in the neck is that it should 

 be thick set, deep, muscular, and short, but of 

 sufficient length to display an arch. The more 

 it is furnished with thick loose skin forming a 

 double dewlap for some distance downwards from 



