226 MANUAL FOB TOTJITG SPOETSMEN. 



The first cross of foxhound and greyhound, which is 

 used on the borders of England and Scotland for fox 

 coursing on the fells, and in the Highlands for pursuing 

 wounded deer, when the true ' Scottish deerhound is not 

 obtainable, and which is called by the borderers " The 

 Streaker," is familiar to me, and from my knowledge of it, 

 I am satisfied that it would require very many crosses 

 backward into the pure foxhound before we should arrive 

 from it at such animals as Mr. Osbaldiston's, or Sir 

 Richard Sutton's, cr the Duke of Beaufort's, Northampton- 

 shire, or Melton Mowbray, or Vale of Blackmoor, fliers. 



The color of the original bloodhound was black, 

 black and tan, or tawny, with very little white, and the 

 pure black breed of St. Hubert was the most highly 

 prized of all. The Talbots varied but little from the 

 general coloring of the bloodhound, but the yellow and 

 black pie was their general color. " The head," says 

 Stonehenge, " is very handsome ; ears large, soft and pen- 

 dulous ; jowl square and well developed; nose broad, soft 

 and moist ; and eyes lustrous and beautifully soft when in 

 an unexcited state." 



The Southern hound, though somewhat lighter framed 

 and not much, has the same general characteristics, but is 

 often, if not generally, blue mottled with patches of 

 black and tan. 



The new improved racing foxhound and the modern 

 staghound, differing from the former only in superior 

 height and power, though with equal fleetness, dash, and 

 spiry high-bred carriage, vary from the old strains, not 

 only in their lighter forms, straight limbs, long let-down 



