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distinct fringe of hair on its under surface. The favourite, or true hound colour, 
is black, white, and tan; but there are also several “ pies” in which the respective 
colours are blended with white; while whole colours, or black-and-tan only, are 
not unknown. The endurance and speed of the modern foxhound is fully attested 
in numerous works on sport, and will not, therefore, be further mentioned here. 
“Stonehenge” observes that a peculiar “faculty in which the hound differs from 
his congeners is a mental one, leading him always, when he loses scent of his 
quarry, to cast forward rather than backward, and to do this with a “dash” 
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FOXHOUNDS IN FULL CRY (} nat. size). 
altogether unlike the slow and careful quest of the bloodhound. This, of course, 
may be overdone, and in that case the hound constantly overruns the scent; but 
without it in these days few foxes would be killed, for unless they are hard pressed 
the scent soon fails and is altogether lost.” For ordinary country the male fox- 
hound, such as shown on p. 576, should average 24 inches, and the female 223 
inches in height; but in hilly districts smaller hounds are preferred. 
This is a breed of hound trained to hunt hares instead of foxes, 
and intermediate in point of size between the foxhound and beagle. 
Pure-bred harriers, probably descended from the old Southern hound, are to be met 
with in Wales, but many of those used in England are crossed with the foxhound, 
Harrier. 
