FOREIGN GUN-DOGS AND TERRIERS. 
fetlock, straight shoulder, short loin, and 
short feet, with thick, well-divided claws. 
He is valued as a worker, but hardly so 
highly as the Braque Charles X., who, 
although a coarse, inelegant dog to look 
upon, is remarkable for his keen 
scent and his steadiness on 
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English Pointer than any of its confréres, 
the only difference being that he has not so 
much lip, a sharper muzzle, and larger ears. 
All these Braques are alike in their work. 
They are slow in their movements, they 
point. The Charles X. is a 
smooth-coated, — liver-and-white 
dog, and he is allowed to retain 
half his tail. His unusually 
long ears do not add to his 
beauty; but beauty is not 
greatly studied by French 
sportsmen, who look only for 
utility in their gun-dogs. A 
much more comely animal is 
the Braque d’Auvergne, of 
which there are two varieties, 
BRAQUE DE BOURBONNAIS. 
range over a limited area of ground, 
and their scent is by no means so 
acute as that of the more nicely 
trained English Pointer. In character 
BRAQUE CHARLES X. 
the Braque blue and the Grand 
Braque. The former is a dog 
of perfect unity of proportion, 
with beautiful outlines, hand- 
somely marked. The body | 
colour is white, with black L 1 
patches and blue flecks. The Wi, | Gee a | 
head is always black with a eat Se eee Oe : Eins a 
white blaze up the face. But = 
for his attenuated stern he would BRAQUE BLUE D'AUVERGNE BRUNO. 
be one of the most attractive- | PROPERTY OF M. J. EOURGADE, NANCY. 
looking sporting dogs in France. 
Then there is the elegant Braque de they are very docile, and perhaps 
l’Ariege, an almost purely white dog, they are on the whole more active in 
but for a few orange spots; and the brain than they look when working 
Braque Dupuy, which more resembles our with their nose in the air. They are all 
