THE SCOTCH GREYHOUND. 



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Unless excited by the sight of its game, or by anger, it is a very peaceable animal ; 

 but when roused, exhibits a most determined spirit. In former days, when wolves and 

 wild boars infested the Irish forests, this Dog was used for the purpose of extirpating 

 those animals ; but in these days their numbers are comparatively few. When fighting, 

 it takes its antagonist by the back, and shakes the life out of its foe by main strength. 

 One of these Dogs measured sixty-one inches in total length ; twenty-eight and a half 

 inches from the toe to the top of the shoulder, and thirty-five inches in girth. 



THE SCOTCH GREYHOUND is still rougher in its coat than its Irish relative, but 

 hardly so large in its make : a very fine example of these Dogs, of the pure Glengarry 

 breed, measure twenty-eight inches in height, and thirty-four inches in girth, being a 

 little smaller than the Irish Dog which was mentioned above. 



IRISH GREYHOUND.-Canysfe/n/7/ar/s. 



There seems to be but one breed of the Scotch Greyhound, although some families 

 are termed Deerhounds, and others are only called Greyhounds. Each, however, from 

 being constantly employed in the chase of either deer or hare, becomes gradually 

 fitted for the pursuit of its special quarry, and contracts certain habits which render 

 it comparatively useless when set to chase the wrong animal. The Scotch Deerhound 

 is possessed of better powers of scent than the Greyhound, and in chasing its game 

 depends as much on its nose as on its eyes. And it is curious too, that although it 

 makes use of its olfactory powers when running, it holds its head higher from the 

 ground than the Greyhound, who only uses its eyes. 



