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and solid orange rarely. No solid color is favored 

 or very frequent. It should be said that tan and 

 orange or lemon are practically the same. Dark 

 tan is orange and light tan is lemon. It is usually 

 called tan only when it comes in company with 

 black. That is, a dog is orange and white when 

 there is no black marking. He is white, black, 

 and tan when the orange color shades the black 

 markings, or appears in small spots on a prevail- 

 ing marking of black and white. Belton, which 

 not a few Americans in some way believe to be a 

 strain, is, of course, only a color. It consists of 

 black, orange, or lemon scattered in small spots or 

 splashes over a white ground. If both black and 

 orange " freckling " appear, the term " blue belton 

 and tan " is commonly used. If the " freckling " is 

 of one color, it is blue belton or orange belton. 



These English setter colors constitute a ground 

 of industrious, if not profitable, dispute on ac- 

 count of the supposed relations of peculiar colors 

 to the Llewellin stock which is paramount among 

 the English setters developed in America during 

 the past thirty years. For the information of 

 those who are just beginning to study the subject, 

 it should be said that the claims of color advo- 

 cates have no particular support in history and 

 not much practical logic, but undoubtedly come 

 under the head of influential fashions and are not 

 to be disregarded. In America the common 



