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termed the fancy breeds in America. In the 

 volume for 1902 there are registered 860 odd 

 Boston terriers, 1380 collies and 330 fox terriers. 

 When the studbook was established, the Airedale 

 terrier was almost unknown in America ; yet the 

 volume for 1902 shows a registration of some 

 hundred and sixty Airedales — a great many 

 more than the registration of Irish and Gordon 

 setters combined. 



I may say that I made no attempt to exhaus- 

 tively verify these figures. They may be in error 

 slightly one way or the other. The evidence on 

 all points was so irresistible that I permitted my 

 first count to stand. 



Of course these registrations do not tell the 

 whole story. The foxhound and greyhound men 

 have their special studbooks. It is also to be 

 said in connection with pointers and setters that 

 nearly all the collie and Boston terrier men regis- 

 ter their dogs, while in all likelihood three-quarters 

 of the three breeds of setters and the pointers in 

 use in the country are not registered. At the 

 same time the general story of the studbook 

 records is descriptive of the situation affecting 

 the various breeds of shooting dogs. In other 

 words, the shooting men of America use Llewel- 

 lin setters and pointers so largely that other 

 breeds scarcely can be called competitors. It is 

 also a basic conclusion that Gladstone and Count 



