136 The Sporting Dog 



than the English pattern. Many very beautiful 

 dogs come of this breed. Their ears are short, 

 yet soft and thin, while their coats are coarse and 

 their tails strong and bushy. In color they are 

 usually black-white-tan; though quite a lot of 

 them are white and spotted, sometimes with black, 

 sometimes with lemon. 



The Triggs are a combination of Maupins and 

 Birdsongs. Some forty years ago, about the 

 close of Birdsong's life, Hayden C. Trigg of Ken- 

 tucky paid him a visit at his old home, Thomas- 

 ton, Georgia, and bought seven or eight of the 

 best foxhounds he had. He did likewise with ref- 

 erence to the Maupins, and then united the two 

 strains, producing, after many years of judicious 

 breeding and great discrimination in mating, a 

 foxhound combining the toughness of the Mau- 

 pins together with the speed and energy of the 

 Birdsongs. Many declare them to be without a 

 peer in America, nor have I, in my experience, 

 found anything better. 



Birdsong, an exquisite in point of training, 

 breeding, and selecting of foxhounds, developed 

 the Irish family almost to a point of perfection. 

 These dogs he got from the grandson of Patrick 

 Henry of Revolutionary fame. Two, Mountain 

 and Muse, had been imported from Ireland dur- 

 ing the time of the Taylors and Governor Ogle 

 of Maryland. They were crossed on the Virginia 



