226 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
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, or 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 
