1890.] 



ON THE DOMESTIC DOG. 



Table WW.— Bloodhounds. 



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No. 1. Roy. Coll. Surgeona. Nos. 2, 3, 4 (ManUla), Nat. Hist. Mus. No. 5. Oxford Univ. 



The Foxhound is, according to ' Stonehenge,' generally supposed 

 to have " been obtained by crossing the old-fashioned hound (whether 

 Northern or Southern) with the Greyhound ; but of this cross tiiere 

 is no record in the kennel books of our earliest Foxhound packs, 

 which trace back for nearly or quite two hundred years. Now, 

 success in breeding generally leads to a confession of the method by 

 which it has been attained, as is exemplified in the case of Lord 

 O.xford -w'ith his Bull-dog and Greyhound cross, and it is argued that 

 if the Greyhound had been used as alleged, some record of the fact 

 would have been handed down to us. Hence this point in the 

 history of the Foxhound must be regarded as unsettled." It 

 may be mentioned that Fitzinger believes it to be the produce of a 

 cross between the English hunting-dog and the great Dane. 



Table ^LN III.— Foxhounds. 



No. 1. Camb. Univ. No. 2. Oxford TTniT. 



A pure Harrier with the exception of the Welsh breeds is, ac- 

 cording to ' Stonehenge,' very rare at the present day. The same 

 authority states that this dog shares with the Bloodhound and Otter- 

 hound the honour of being the oldest breed of hounds now in. 

 England. It is distinguished, amongst other things, from the Fox- 



