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more brindled puppies by a black than by a red or fawn dog, 

 because it will take more black in this case to obliterate the 

 brindle than of red or fawn, whereas in the dark brindle a very 

 little additional black will make the whole skin uniformly of that 

 colour. Of course in all these cases the colour of the family is 

 to be taken into consideration, as well as that of the individual, 

 and this holds good in all cases, whether of colour, form, or 

 blood. As an instance of the above I will take Mr. Lawrence's 

 6 Landgravine,' a dark-brindled bitch, and nearly all of a dark- 

 brindled blood, being by ' Chieftain ' bd d out of ( Ruby,' whose 

 dam was also brindled. Now 4 Landgravine ' has been put to 

 three dogs, producing litter the 1 st : by ( Foremost,' bk d, all 

 black ; next, by ' Vraye Foy,' r d, all brindled ; and thirdly, by 

 4 Lopez,' bk d, part brindled and part black and white, * Lopez ' 

 being himself partly of the blood of ' Westwind ' bd d. I could 

 easily produce other instances as strong or even stronger than the 

 above, but of the fact I have satisfied myself, and any one else 

 may easily ascertain for himself whether I am right or wrong. 



As far as I know, the only instance of a true brindle occurring 

 in any of the carnivorous mammalia, not subject to domestication 

 by man, is in the tiger and some others of the cat genus ; it 

 would, therefore, be much more logical to assert that the brindled 

 greyhound was derived from the cat than from the bull-dog ; 

 because we know that it is peculiar to the one and that it is not 

 peculiar to the other ; for we also know that there are as many 

 red, black, and fawn bull-dogs, as there are of the brindled colour. 

 In fact, there is every reason to believe with Mr. Groodlake 



