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ent upon the support of Mr. Keasbey and Mr. Viti, who made fourteen 
of the twenty-six entries, the other than black classes depending almost 
entirely upon the support of the former with his home-bred Saybrook 
Popcorn and his progeny. It would seem to be the urgent duty of the 
Spaniel Club to use every effort to increase the interest in three at least 
of the spaniel breeds, Clumber, field and Irish water spaniel, each of which 
is urgently in need of better support. 
The black field spaniel when well shown is certainly a very handsome 
dog, with his highly polished coat, but that is not the only colour, and there 
are varieties other than the liver and black and tan which should be exploited. 
The roans are more or less attractive, as much so certainly as the livers 
and black and tans, and there are various particolours. We remember 
seeing at Mr. Robert Chapman’s famed Glenboig Kennels a number of 
white and black field spaniels, a most handsome variety which we regret 
has not been introduced here. These were not blacks with a little white 
other than on chest, but white with black markings similar to a well-marked 
particolour cocker or black and white setter or pointer. Then we have 
seen tricolours, though they are scarce. We remember getting a brace of 
puppies from Mr. Jacobs many years ago. Most unfortunately, they 
reached the steamer at Liverpool with incipient distemper, and although 
they arrived at New York in fair strength, they never fully rallied. The 
dog was a particularly good one, and would, had he lived, have made a 
sensation on account of his very handsome markings as well as his good 
head and character. Our recollection is that they were bred from a cocker 
bitch, but by what dog we cannot now say. -A cross of the Welsh spaniel 
might produce good field spaniels with the Welsh red and white markings. 
Some amendment of the classification along the line of putting blacks and 
livers together and catering to other colours by special conditioned classes 
might bring about the necessary interest to increase the number of exhib- 
itors and thereby the entries. 
Of some of these colour varieties we pick up notes in many of the 
works devoted to shooting, as well as books more particularly connected 
with dogs. Jesse wrote as early as 1846 regarding the variety kept by 
the Earl of Albemarle: ‘‘They are black and tan, of a large size, with 
long ears, and very much feathered about the legs. They are excellent 
retrievers, and those who have seen will not soon forget Mr. Landseer’s 
charming picture of Lord Albemarle’s celebrated dog Chancellor and one 
