Appendix. 491 
IRISH WATER SPANIELS. 
PositIvE Points. 
Head and Jaw . : en. “Oe ‘ : : 10 
Eyes , , ; : : ‘ ‘ ; 5 
Top-knot . ; ‘ ‘ : . ‘ : 5 
Ears : Bae . 3 : ; ‘ 10 
Neck : : : ‘ : ; P ; 74 
Body - . : : ‘ ; ‘ . 74 
Fore legs . : ; . : ‘ . ; 5 
Hind legs. : : : : : ‘ : 5 
Feet : : : : ; ; ; me ag 
Stern : ; : 5 ‘ : : ‘ 10 
Coat : ; i ‘ : : ‘ 15. 
General Appearance 5 . ; ; : ; 15 
Total Positive Points . ' . 100 
NEGATIVE Points. 
Light Yellow or Gooseberry eyes : ; ' 10 
Cording, or Tags of dead or matted hair. : 12 
Moustache, or Poodle hair on cheek . _— 5 
Lank, Open, or Woolly Coat. ; : ; 7 
A natural Sandy,’ Light Coat 8 
Furnishing of tail more than half-way dame to 
sting . ; ‘ ‘ : : vs 
Setter feathering on Lege : ; : : ; 10 
White Patch on Chest ‘ : : ; ‘ 6 
Total Negative Points . . 65 
Disguatifications.—Total absence of top-knot; a fully feathered 
tail; any white patch on any part of the dog, except a small one 
on chest or toe. 
DESCRIPTIVE PARTICULARS. 
ffead.—Capacious skull, rather raised in dome and fairly wide, 
showing large brain capacity. The dome appears higher than it 
really is, from its being surmounted by the crest or top-knot, which 
