THE HARRIER. 63 



Corbett, whose beautiful strain certainly can be held to be pure, 

 if there is such a state of things anywhere. Without doubt they 

 are descended from the best harrier blood ; but I should doubt 

 whether such clean throats could be produced without recourse 

 either to the foxhound or to the source from which his peculiar 

 shape has in all probability been derived, namely, the greyhound. 



"Dahlia,"* a pure Foxhound, used as Harrier. 



As a matter of course, all harriers are at first sight distinguished 

 from the foxhound by their full ears, giving a different expression 

 to the head ; but, independently of this feature, they usually are 

 longer and narrower in the face and head, and somewhat more 

 hollow under the eye, which is also fuller and softer in expression. 

 But the foxhound cross shows itself more in mental than in 



* " Dahlia" is by the Duke of Rutland's " Driver " out of the Bramhammoor 

 "Dulcet." She is 21 inches in height. 



