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of type in the three colours than has been remarked by the 

 author elsewhere. 



Mr. A. E. Butter, of Faskally, had a very fine kennel of liver- 

 and-white pointers, mostly derived from a strain kept up in 

 Shropshire and the neighbourhood. These dogs had all the 

 best strains of liver-and-white blood in their pedigrees, and they 

 were as successful at field trials as, and much resembled, Mr. 

 Sam Price's Bang and Mike. Faskally Bragg and Syke of 

 Bromfield were most striking workers, entirely of the liver-and- 

 white type ; but good as they were in the field, it was difficult to 

 see how Bragg became a show Champion, with a very heavy 

 shoulder, great throat like a hound, and the same suggestion 

 behind. But he became a capital stud dog, and in Melksham 

 Bragg probably became the sire of his own superior in work 

 as well as in appearance. But a better than either was Syke 

 of Bromfield. The best of this type is now in the kennel of 

 Colonel C. J. Cotes of Pitchford, whose Pitchford Ranger and 

 Pitchford Duke are in every way admirable specimens of this 

 type of pointer. The latter's dam, Pitchford Druce, approaches 

 the dish-faced, fine-sterned type, and very few better have won at 

 field trials in recent years. Colonel Cotes tells the author that 

 this bitch traces back to his father's old breed, kept for a century 

 at Woodcote, where there were constant interchanges of blood 

 with Sir Thomas Boughey's sort, only recently dispersed. Mr. 

 Elias Bishop has been very successful with his family of pointers 

 called the Pedros, and these again are of the liver-and-white 

 type, but with a tendency to the dish-faces of the lemon-and- 

 white dogs, and not as coarse in the sterns as some of the 

 more pronounced liver-and-white type. 



Mr. Arkwright has the best black pointers the author has 

 seen. Their bodies are distinctly greyhoundy in form, but not 

 their heads. The last-mentioned fact does not preclude the 

 possibility of a remote cross of greyhound, as colour is a truer 

 indication of blood, although not of paper pedigree, than is head 

 formation. By " paper pedigree " no suggestion of false testi- 

 mony is intended, but reference is made to the recently ascer- 

 tained facts that two of a litter may be widely different in root 



