bookV ; .rawSng$,-ahd :pi6tures, down to the lyth century. According 

 to DafwihVT^fy*^ 1 Selection, t\\z forms of animals are, in the courfe 

 ?k. a fefc m5Djitried.jby|QUmate and habits, even when their fpecies may be 

 brought tact to a type almoft unique, and not complicated as regards 

 fize and general outline of the body. Are fuch modifications highly 

 obfervable in dogs, of which the common type may be, and is, in fact, 

 varied almoft ad infinitum by crofs-breedings ? Such is the queftion 

 which the prefent book will, perhaps, help to bring a little nearer its 

 folution. 



Some of the greateft artifts feem to have had a particular fancy for 

 dogs, and they have, without doubt, given correct likenefies of fuch as 

 they have drawn. The infpection of their drawings, collected from 

 every available fource, and reproduced as much as poflible in fac-fimile, 

 muft, therefore, be acceptable to all who take an intereft in fuch queftions. 



The laft exhibition of fporting and other dogs which we have juft 

 witnefled in the laft week of March 1863, confiding of more than 1200 

 dogs, very fairly reprefented all die varieties now extant in England. 

 Let us enumerate here the varieties exhibited as a point of comparifon 

 with our drawings, in which, certainly, the greater part of thefe varieties 

 may be ftill recognifed. 



The firft divifion, fporting dogs, fhowed us 



1. The fox-hound. 



2. The fox-terrier. 



3 The bloodhound. 



4. The otter-hound. 



5. The deer-hound. 



6. The harrier. 



7. The beagle. 



8. The greyhound. 



9. The pointer. 



10. The fetter. 



1 1 . The black and tan 



fetter. 



12. The Iriih fetter. 



13. The retriever. 



14. The Ruffian retriever. 



15. The Clumber fpaniel. 



1 6. The jfpaniel. 



