DOMESTIC DOGS. 
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the ears and legs; while the tail is mostly but thinly fringed. The profile of 
the face is but slightly concave, and the muzzle relatively long and deep, with a 
more or less marked overlapping of the upper lip. With the exception of the 
pointer, they hunt by “ foot-scent.” 
The most striking and characteristic feature of the bloodhound is its magni¬ 
ficent head, which is considerably larger and heavier in the male than in the 
female. While generally extremely massive, the head is remarkable for its 
narrowness between the ears, where it rises into a dome-like prominence, termin¬ 
ating in a marked protuberance in the occipital region. The skin of the forehead, 
like that round the eyes, is thrown into a series of transverse puckers, as is well 
shown in the recumbent figure of our illustration. The long and tapering jaws are 
bloodhounds (fa nat. size). 
of great depth but relatively narrow, and abruptly truncated in front; while the 
upper lips are pendulous. The large and thin ears should hang close to the 
cheeks; and the small and deeply-sunk hazel eyes are characterised by the 
exposure of a considerable part of the membrane of the socket, which is generally 
red, and is technically known as the haw. The throat is heavy, and passes down¬ 
wards into a more or less well-marked dew-lap. In the English breed the tail is 
slightly fringed with hair, although in our figured example it is quite smooth; it 
should be carried in a curve, but not raised above a right angle with the line of 
the back. The short coat should be coarse and hard on the back and sides, but 
soft and silky on the head and ears. The most esteemed coloration is black-and- 
tan, but the animal may be all tan; the presence of white being a blemish. Our 
illustration is taken from a foreign strain of the bloodhound, which is lower 011 its 
legs than the English breed. 
