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wolf that a Hungarian has been known to 
mistake a wolf for one of his own collies. 
Dogs of the Pyrenean and Komondor 
MISS LEFROY'S KOMONDOR CSINOS. 
type, with drop ears and deep white coats, 
are curiously distributed over Europe. The 
pastoral dog of the Abruzzes, often called 
the sheepdog of the Maremmes, is decidedly 
of this character, and might readily pass for 
the Komondor. 
The Leonberg.—It may be 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
simple. When a disastrous avalanche anda 
visitation of distemper decimated the kennels 
of the St. Bernard Hospice, Herr Essig, of 
Leonberg, generously returned to the superior 
of the hospice a St. Bernard dog and bitch, 
which had been presented to him. Before 
returning them he allowed the dog to be 
mated with a Newfoundland, and the result 
was the so-called Leonberg dog. This was 
some fifty years ago, since when the variety 
has prospered spasmodically. At the Paris 
dog show of 1907, ten Leonbergs were 
entered in the Chieszs de Montagae class. 
They were good-looking dogs, favouring the 
Newfoundland rather than the St. Bernard. 
Most of them were sables with dark points ; 
but the English visitor, remembering their 
origin, reflected that in a country where we 
have St. Bernards such as Cing Mars, and 
Newfoundlands such as Shelton Viking, there 
is no occasion to covet the descendants of 
Herr Essig’s experiment. 
Of the Berghund it is enough to say that 
it was a large dog fabricated in Waldheim as 
a rival to the Leonberg. 
The Owtchar, or Russian Sheepdog.— 
expected that something should 
here be said of the Leonberg 
dog, as it is supposed also to 
be a worker among flocks and 
herds. The variety is recog- 
nised in Germany and France 
as a legitimate breed, and spe- 
cimens may be seen at most of 
the Continental shows, but in 
England we have discarded the 
dog as a transparent mongrel, 
even as we rejected the Berg- 
hund. 
Some thirty years ago, when 
large dogs were in much re- 
quest, efforts were made to 
establish the Leonberg in this 
country, but it was admittedly 
a cross between the Newfound- 
land and the St. Bernard, and its 
merits were recognised by none so much as 
by the enterpris ng gentlemen who presented 
it as “a new breed.” Its history is very 
RUSSIAN OWTCHAR (SHEEPDOG) OLGA. 
It is pleasing to turn from a mongrel 
to a genuine breed. Such certainly is the 
old Russian Sheepdog, who is a yeoman of 
