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tint is favorable as far more easily seen in thick autumnal 
covert, than the self-color, which greatly assimilates to 
the dead leaf. 
Lemon and white, orange and white, tawny and white, 
particularly if coupled with a black nose and lips, are, in 
my judgment, highly objectionable, as indicating a cross of 
setter, which I abominate in the pointer. 
Pure white is rare, but unobjectionable; plain jet- 
black is also faultless ; but where the black and white are 
joined, I suspect foxhound blood ; and if to these be added 
the smallest dash of tan, whether in the shape of eye- 
spots, muzzles, or feet, I am sure of it. 
Tan eye-spots are sometimes seen in plain black dogs; 
and there is a famous but rare English family so charac- 
terized; and if there be no white whatever, I should re- 
joice in the possession of a pointer so colored. 
So also in liver, and liver and white dogs, are tan eye- 
spots found and regarded as beauties, rather than defects. 
Lord Derby’s excellent kennel turns out admirable liver 
and white dogs, so characterized, and of a stamp well 
adapted to American shooting, as possessing perfectly pure 
blood, and quite sufficiently high and fine a strain, with- 
out over delicacy of coat, and with sufficient stoutness for 
rough work. 
There is little more to note in reference to the pointer; 
but there obtains a common error or prejudice in relation 
to one of his occasional characteristics, which it may be 
as well to refute. 
One of the marks, so common as to be almost an in- 
variable characteristic, of the old Spanish pointer, is what 
