FOREIGN GUN-DOGS AND TERRIERS. 
varieties on the Continent. Those of Ger- 
many are extremely interesting and quite 
dissimilar from any breed we have in Eng- 
land. There are two very distinct kinds, 
a smooth-coated and a wire-haired, and of 
these there are local and sub-varieties. 
The smooth-coated German Pointer, 
or Kurzhaariger Vorstehhund, is a ro- 
bust dog of shapely frame, standing from 
23 to 25 inches at the shoulder. His 
GERMAN POINTERS PATTI VON REUDEN 
chief peculiarity in English eyes is his 
docked tail and his colouring of pure coffee- 
brown or brown and white in equal propor- 
tions, the white freely spotted with brown. 
The head is lightly modelled, with a broad 
forehead, the skull slightly domed and rising 
to a peak, the stop well defined, and the 
muzzle broad and square. The eyes are 
dark and oval, with a serious expression. 
The open nostrils and long nasal bone seem 
to indicate his keen scent. The ears are fairly 
long and broad, lying without folds close to 
the head. His chest is broad and deep, with 
ribs well arched. The back is rather short, 
and the legs are long, giving him a racy 
appearance. The stern is always docked 
to about half its length. Typical examples 
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of the breed are shown in the portraits of 
Patti and Pommery von Reuden. 
The rough-coated variety is of Griffon 
type, with a square and full muzzle, the 
eyes set well back, and the ears set low; a 
muscular and symmetrical dog, with a 
harsh, wiry coat of brown and white, with 
brown speckles. 
A popular and useful gun-dog on the 
Continent, and especially in Germany, is the 
AND POMMERY VON REUDEN. 
Poodle-Pointer, which is especially good at 
the work of retrieving. He is a large-sized, 
wiry-coated dog, with an average height of 
24 inches at the shoulder. The head is of 
good length, with a long and broad muzzle, 
not snipy, like that of the Poodle, and with 
a prominent nasal bone. The moustache 
and eyebrows are very marked, and the 
ears are long, lying close to the head, and 
covered with hair as a protection from 
thorns and bent grass. The eyes are large 
and clear, yellow or yellow-brown in colour. 
The neck is of good length and muscular, 
the chest full and deep, the ribs well arched, 
the back short and straight, the loins 
muscular; other characteristics are his 
powerful hindquarters, his slender and 
