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from Beaufort Castle, from the Duke of Richmond and Gordon's 

 kennel, and from Lord Cawdor's strain, to prove was black- 

 white-and-tan, and that was also the colour of the dogs at the 

 dispersal of the Duke of Gordon's kennel in 1837. So that it 

 is a mistake to call black-and-tan setters Gordons, for although 

 the Duke's celebrated strain was partly originated from dogs 

 of that colour, so also were all other English setters. Gervaise 

 Markham, in Hunger's Prevention ; or the whole art of fowling 

 by Land and Water, in 1665, speaks of black-and-fallow dogs 

 as the hardest to endure labour, so that there is no doubt 

 about the existence of black-and-tan setters before the Duke 

 of Gordon started to pay attention to setter breeding. There 

 is also no doubt that the Duke's dogs were bred and crossed 

 in colours until they became black-white-arid-tan. The author 

 has shown how the black-and-tan colour was restored in the 

 Gordon of the present time by the bloodhound cross, and it 

 only remains to say that the reason the black-and-tan colour 

 is now accepted as that of the Gordon came about from the 

 early classification of the Birmingham Dog Show, where true 

 Gordons were placed in the English setter classes, and all kinds 

 of black-and-tans in the class for Gordons, although some at 

 least, probably many, of that colour were not Gordons. That 

 the bloodhound cross destroyed the merits of the various races 

 of that colour may be gathered from two facts. One was that 

 the first dog show was won by a black-and-tan, and the other 

 that the first field trial was also won by a black-and-tan. 

 No doubt both these dogs were descended on one side or other 

 of their pedigree from the Duke of Gordon's dogs, but it is 

 doubtful whether they got their black-and-tan from that side. 

 Their pedigrees can be looked up in the first volume of the 

 Stud Book. But if they are read by the light of a pedigree 

 of a dog that belonged to the author and was of much the 

 same breeding, a pedigree which also occurs in that volume, 

 it will be seen that they might be Gordons only so far as they 

 inherited black-white-and-tan blood, and were of other breeds 

 so far as they inherited black-and-tan blood. To make what 

 is intended clear, the entry is quoted : 



