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llin. at the shoulder ; the weight should be from lllb. to 181b., the bitches being 

 considerably smaller than the dogs. In symmetry the dachshund is above the 

 average, as may be judged from a reference to the excellent examples belonging 

 to Mr. Barclay Hanbury, which I have had drawn by Mr. Baker, who has caught 

 the peculiar characteristics of the breed with marvellous truth. Though not 

 able to show as many first prizes as Mr. Fisher's Feldmann or the Earl of 

 Onslow's Waldmann, they are quite up to the level of those dogs, and being within 

 easy reach of Mr. Baker, I have selected them accordingly. Their dimensions are 

 as follows : 



FRITZ (red tan). Imported by Mr. Schuller from the royal kennels, Stuttgard 

 (pedigree unknown) : Height, lOf in. ; length from tip to tip, 42in. ; head, Sin. ; 

 ears, 7in. ; age 1| years. 



DINA (black and tan). Imported by Mr. Schuller (pedigree unknown) : Height, 

 lOin. ; length, 40|in. ; head, 7|in. ; ears, 6in. ; age, 2f years. 



I append the following interesting and very valuable letter received from 

 Germany, which, in the main, confirms the information previously obtained from the 

 various sources above-mentioned; although in unimportant details there is, of 

 course, some difference of opinion. I may observe, in reference to Herr Beck- 

 mann's insisting on the propriety of regarding the dachshund as used only 

 underground in Germany, that I have nothing to do with the intentions of those 

 who originally bred the dog ; all that is now within my province is to describe him 

 as he exists. 



NOTES ON THE GERMAN TYPE OF THE DACHSHUND. 

 (By HERB LUDWIQ BECKMANN, of Dusseldorf .) 



SIR. There has been a great deal of correspondence in the Field and other 

 sporting papers regarding the points of the dachshund, and yet the question seems 

 to be still unsettled. This uncertainty is rather striking, if we notice that hundreds 

 of dachshunds have already been imported into England, and among them certainly 

 many well-bred, if not even high bred, dogs, which might serve as a model for the 

 real dachshund type every moment. The writer of these lines has bred and worked 

 dachshunds all his life, and, as he has given the subject peculiar attention, he 

 begs to state his opinion as to what may be the cause of this uncertainty, 

 and in what respect some English fanciers might perhaps be in error regarding 

 points, size, colours, or employment of this ancient German breed. 



1. The Houndlike Type. The dachshund has had the misfortune, on his intro- 

 duction into England, to be confounded by some authors with the French basset. 

 This mistake was favoured by the fact that even our modern German and French 

 kynologists* make no difference between the two races. M. A. Pierre Pichot, editor 



* Vide Prof. Fit/inger, " Der Hnnd tmd seine Eacen," p. 179 ; and De la Blanchere in his 

 excellent book, "Les Chiens de Chasse." De la B. says verbally (p. 110): " Les bassets sont 

 extremement nombreux en Allemagne, et qnelqnes races ont les oreilles tellement enormes, qu'elles 

 trainent jusqu'a terre." I beg to state here that dachshunds of that kind have never existed. 

 The French basset was identical with the German dachshund in days of yore, and was most 



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