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The largest variety of the Hound used for stag-hunting, 

 is also sometimes trained to follow the scent of blood, and 

 is thence called the Blood-Hound. This variety was for- 

 merly much fostered in Great Britain ; and was probably of 

 particular use during the existence of the severe forest-laws. 



The King of Saxony kept a breed of Hounds of immense 

 size and powers, for Boar-hunting. They were larger and 

 taller than our largest Mastiff, and had the transverse dark 

 shades on the body which characterize this animal in 

 general rather than the Hound. The ground-colour was 

 white, and the markings of a reddish or brownish yellow, in 

 the different individuals. There is, as before stated, in the 

 Museum of Dresden, a Dwarf Dog, which attained two years 

 of age. Major Smith observed, that this diminutive animal 

 measured only five inches and a half in length, which was 

 just the length, from the corner of the eye, to the tip of 

 the nose, of a specimen of the Saxon Boar-Hounds he saw. 



The Fox-Hound is a smaller variety of the Stag or Blood 

 Hound, used in Fox-hunting. It is extremely persevering 

 in the chase. 



The Harrier is a still smaller variety of this species, used 

 in Hare-hunting. There are, again, particular breeds of 

 the Harrier, as the Beagles and Southern Hounds, which 

 rather interest the sportsman than the zoologist. 



The name of Talbot appears to have been applied to the 

 several varieties of the Hound. 



The Pointer, (Cards Avicularius, L.) The muzzle of this 

 variety is rather shorter and smaller than that of the 

 Hounds in general; the head is shorter; and the ears, 

 which are smaller, are partly erect and partly pendulous. 

 There is a large breed, called the Spanish Pointer, which is 

 considered as having greater acuteness of scent than the 

 smaller or English Pointer. The Dalmatian Pointer is a 

 beautiful spotted kind, which is white, with very small 



