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are, for example, the light and elegant flews. There is loose skin about the cheeks, 

 little German hounds, with their smooth but it is not sufficiently heavy to draw down 

 coats and feathered sterns. These are the lower eyelid and disclose the haw. The 

 seldom more than 40 Ib. in weight, and nasal bone is slightly aquiline, much broader 



than that of the Bloodhound. The ears 

 are set high and are very broad, rounded at 

 the ends and lying without folds close to 

 the cheeks. With a long, strong neck, a 

 broad, deep chest, a long, nicely arched 

 back, and muscular quarters, he is, when 

 seen at his best, an admirable representative 

 of the Continental sporting hound, elastic 

 in action, energetic in expression, and in 

 shape and colour decidedly attractive. 

 The Bavarian Schweiss-hund is somewhat 

 smaller than the Hanoverian, but very 

 similar in general type. 



A very distinctive hound is that of 

 Russia, the Gontschaga Sobaka, of which 

 the Czar and the Grand Dukes keep huge 

 may be of any hound colour. Somewhat packs of aristocratic and exclusive strain, 

 similar are the hounds of Austria, which Seen at a distance, this hound has the 

 are often all white, but otherwise re- general appearance of a wolf, the hind- 

 semble the English Harriers. quarters being much lower than the fore- 



The ideal hunting dog in Germany is the quarters. The head, too, is wolf-like ; broad 

 Schweiss-hund, which has many of the between the ears, and tapering to a fine 

 characteristics of the Bloodhound. In the muzzle. The ears are not large, and although 

 neighbourhood of Hanover he is popular they hang over, they have a tendency to 

 as a limier, and is used for the purpose of prick when the dog is excited. There is 

 tracking wounded deer. Marvellous stories a good deal of dewlap about the strong and 

 are told of his powers of scent. The pre- muscular neck. The coat is hard and rather 

 vailing colour of the breed is red-tan, with long, with a woolly undercoat, and the 



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a black mask, and in 

 many instances there is a 

 black saddle, which in- 

 creases the resemblance 

 to the English Blood- 

 hound. Twenty-one inches 

 at the shoulder is an 

 average height. In gene- 

 ral appearance he is a 

 strong, long-bodied dog 

 of symmetrical propor- 

 tions. The skull is broad 

 and slightly domed, with 

 a well developed occi- 

 pital bone. The forehead 

 is slightly wrinkled, with 

 projecting eyebrows, the 

 muzzle square, the lips 

 falling over in decided 



stern, which is carried straight, is a 

 short brush. The colour is grizzle or 

 black, with tan markings, often with 



HANOVERIAN SCHWEISS-HUND. 



