the field. A satisfactory ending on the whole, for it would be a 

 thousand pities to rob little Wales of her most typical contribution 

 to the domestic canidce. She has, too, her Springer and Cocker 

 spaniels, both handsome dogs, but fewer in numbers, and some 

 years ago she had also rough coated hounds, sturdy and hardy, as 

 befitted the nature of the country in which they had to work. 

 Unfortunately, they have practically disappeared. 



The fact that the old English and the Welsh terriers displayed 

 similar markings must not be used as an argument capable of being 

 pushed to any great extent, for this is a colour that crops up in 

 most breeds, and is therefore suggestive in many ways. Mr. R. I. 

 Pocock, an authority to whom we must defer with respect, urges 

 that it is potentially present in all, and from this fact he finds 

 justification for the argument in favour of a descent from the wolf 

 and jackal. A comparison will show that the tan on dogs is 

 distributed, with the exception of the spots over the eyes, in a 

 manner precisely identical with the light markings on the wild 

 animals. His conclusion is that the black and tan pattern is a 

 nigrescent variation, saved from being completely melanistic by the 

 pale areas turning tan instead of black like the rest of the body, 

 tan or red in dogs, as in men and other animals, being an inter- 

 mediate stage in colour between black and white. The point is 

 interesting, especially to bulldog men, who debar a black and tan 

 from winning prizes on the score that the colour denotes a bar 



