38 THE DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY OF THE DOG. 



either black or red, like the father or mother, or else red with 

 black muzzles and ears, or black and tan, or the black and red pie 

 peculiar to the foxhound and harrier, or lastly a brindle, which is 

 a black stripe on a red ground ; and thirdly, there is the union of 

 red and white, which will produce either white and red, or red 

 and white, or fawn, puppies. But besides the mixture of these 

 primitive colours, there is also that between black and fawn, and 

 blue and fawn, producing in the first case black-muzzled fawn or 

 fawn-brindled, and in the second, blue-muzzled fawn or blue- 

 brindled. Nearly the same mixture of colours occurs in the cow 

 and horse ; in the former of which we have all the colours found 

 in the dog, but in the horse the brindle and blue are absent ; black 

 and white producing piebald or grey, and black, white, and red, 

 the various roans and strawberries. 



In reference to the brindle it has been supposed by Mr. 

 Thacker, Mr. Mundy, and some others, that it is due to the 

 bull-dog cross ; but if the above theory is correct, this opinion is 

 erroneous ; that it is so, is proved by the fact that several of those 

 dogs which are clearly of bull-dog origin, are of different colours 

 as, for instance, ' Eapid,' and her brothers c Eattler ' and ' Bain- 

 bow,' in the pedigree of f Jason,' which were black or blue ; ' Effie 

 Deans,' in the pedigree of the ' Czar,' a fawn bitch ; and Mr. 

 Fyson's ( Fancy-Boy,' red. Another argument in favour of the 

 above cause of the brindle is the following : if a dark-brindled 

 bitch is put to a black dog, she will generally produce black 

 puppies, but if put to a red dog she will more frequently throw 

 red-brindled puppies ; whereas a light-brindled bitch will produce 



