r,8 1)IVISI(.)N I. VEKTEBIIAL AXIJIALS. — CLASS I. MA.M.MA1>IA. 



tlic rnfjnii nml tlio ( 'hristian Cdiiditions of existence; anil altlimigli tlic 

 last nieiitiuneil were lai'^er and more [irizCMl, it seems that the breed never 

 lieeame numei'oiis, and lioth continued to he (U'liominated Dogs of 8t. IIu- 

 liert to tiie time of the lale revolution. (.)f the Talliots of Enghuid wo 

 know not the origin : Imt it is likely that some individual jiilgrim of the 

 illustrious family iK'aring that name brought the breed from Palestine. 



About tlu' miildle of the thirteenth century St. Louis brought back 

 from the same region a third brei'd of hounds, whose prevailing color was 

 a rufous gray {'jn's de liccre) ; they were high on the legs, with handsome 

 feet and large ears ; they were bohl, and even vehement; superior in speed 

 to the St. Hubert races, but with inferior sensibility of nose. 



.V fourth race was formed by Louis XIL ; it was denominated Clerk's 

 Hounds {rhiens (jix'fjicrx), because they were derived from a cross between 

 the white St. Ilu'bert's with a Uracco bitch brought from Italy, the projierly 

 of one of the clerks of the king's household. The house and bulges in the 

 park of St. (icrmains were built to foster this breed, which united all tlie 

 good finalities of the other running dogs, without their delects. They were 

 usuallv white, with a tan spot on the body, and appear to be the progenitors 

 of our present hounds. 



On Inferring to the s[)lendidly illuminated mamiscrijit. Hunting ('odes of 

 Philip the (Jood, Duke of P.urgundy ( lli'.VU 10) , of Charles the Pold, 

 his son, a book liearing the title of Lc ll<i> Jlodiis; a third, of the Emperor 

 Maximilian of Austria; and a fourth, once the property of Charles V., all 

 in the library of th.e Dukes of Burgundy, at Brussels, we find boar hunts, 

 whci-e well exeiaitcd dogs represent Staghoimds with am[)le cars, but with 

 nearly the whole fur a rusty-red color, and only a few are ^vhitc, with two 

 or three large spots of an ashy gray ; they greatly resemljle a Iirecd of 

 St. liernai'd .Vl]iine <logs, still preserved. The Bloodhounds, or Limers, 

 are quite white. 



Foxhounds, or Tiounds trained to fox-hunting, were first formed by the 

 order of Louis XIH., who, being find of that sport, and impatient of the 

 modo then In use, which consisted in sending Turnspits into the earths, 

 desired, according to I\I. Bobert do Salnove, lieutenant of the chase, to 

 have dogs tiahu-d to run after nnkennellcd foxes. 



A\ Ith regard to the ]-e<l-liaIred just mentioned, the race was still kept up 

 to lumt wolves so late as tlie year 17711. 



Li the book of the Emperor ^laximilian, a stag-hunt exliibits dogs of the 

 same rust color; others are white, with the back, head, and ears black, or 

 black with some ruf)us. The Limers rusty-brown and j-eUowish-gray. 

 The Coursing dogs arc jnu-e white ; but in all the hunting scenes of the 

 above manuscripts other dogs are iuteriuixed with the packs ; and the 



