518 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
wolf that a Hungarian has been known to simple. When a disastrous avalanche and a 
mistake a wolf for one of his own collies. visitation of distemper decimated the kennels 
Dogs of the Pyrenean and Komondor of the St. Bernard Hospice, Herr Essig, of 
Leonberg, generously returned to the superior 
of the hospice a St. Bernard dog and bitch, 
which had been presented to him. Before 
returning them he allowed the dog to be 
mated with a Newfoundland, and the result 
was the so-called Leonberg dog. This was 
some fifty years ago, since when the variety 
has prospered spasmodically. At the Paris 
dog show of 1907, ten Leonbergs were 
entered in the Chiens de Montagae class. 
They were good-looking dogs, favouring the 
Newfoundland rather than the St. Bernard. 
Most of them were sables with dark points ; 
but the English visitor, remembering their 
origin, reflected that in a country where we 
have St. Bernards such as Cinq Mars, and 
MISS LEFROY'S KOMONDOR CSINOS. Newfoundlands such as Shelton Viking, there 
is no occasion to covet. the descendants of 
type, with drop ears and deep white coats, Herr Essig’s experiment. 
are curiously distributed over Europe. The Of the Berghund it is enough to say that 
pastoral dog of the Abruzzes, often called it was a large dog fabricated in Waldheim as. 
the sheepdog of the Maremmes, is decidedly a rival to the Leonberg. 
of this character, and might readily pass for The Owtchar, or Russian Sheepdog.— 
the Komondor. 
The Leonberg.—It may be 
expected that something should 
here be said of the Leonberg 
dog, as it is supposed also to 
be a worker among flocks and 
herds. The variety is recog- 
nised in Germany and France 
as a legitimate breed, and spe- 
cimens may be seen at most of 
the Continental shows, but in 
England we have discarded the 
dog as a transparent mongrel, 
even as we rejected the Berg- 
hund. 
Some thirty years ago, when 
large dogs were in much re- 
quest, efforts were made to 
establish the Leonberg in this 
country, but it was admittedly 
a cross between the Newfound- 
land and the St. Bernard, and its 
merits were recognised by none so much as_ It is pleasing to turn from a mongrel 
by the enterpels ng gentlemen who presented to a genuine breed. Such certainly is the 
it as “a new breed.” Its history is very old Russian Sheepdog, who is a yeoman of 
RUSSIAN OWTCHAR (SHEEPDOG) OLGA. 
