FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL 
AND 
POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 11, 1874. 
No. 24. 



















































































































































































































































“RANGER.” 
MR. MACDONA’S SETTER, ‘‘ RANGER.” 
TE field trials at Shrewsbury just past will give interest 
to the above portrait of Ranger, one of the most extraordi- 
nary Setters that has yet been brought out at field trials, and 
whose pedigree goes far to show that a good ‘ show-bench ”’ 
pedigree and good field performances are by no means so in- 
compatible as some would-be authorities would have us be- 
lieve. He was bred by Rev. C. Macdona, by his Quince II, 
from his Judy, and was whelped in July, 1872; he and his 
own sister, Vagnol, also the property of Mr. Macdona, being 
the only two that survived out of a very promising litter. 

Ranger was first brought out as a puppy at the Spring Trials 
at Shrewsbury, 1878, when he and Mr. Statter’s Rob Roy 
were put down together, when unfortunately being put out 
by Rob Roy’s starting a hare, both gave chase, Ranger show- 
ing most extraordinary speed, but coming into call immedi- 
ately, whilst Rob Roy did not turn up until the shades of 
evening closed in. This unfortunate commencement of a 
field trial of course threw them both ‘out of the stake; but 
lookers-on at the trial saw in the then puppy a dog of great 
promise, and one that would be sure to make his mark, a 
result he realized when, in the following month of August, 
he astonished every one by his grand style of going, and his 
