. The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries. Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease, comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog. Dog. [from old catalog]. X FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. breed is now much employed in England, though as yet compara- tively little used in the United States, their work being performed by our setters and pointers. They are described, page 164. 11. Pointer, Daisy (page 237). This poiuter, belonging to Dr. A. K. Strachan, of New York City, took the first prize of her class in the New York Bench Show of 187
. The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries. Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease, comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog. Dog. [from old catalog]. X FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. breed is now much employed in England, though as yet compara- tively little used in the United States, their work being performed by our setters and pointers. They are described, page 164. 11. Pointer, Daisy (page 237). This poiuter, belonging to Dr. A. K. Strachan, of New York City, took the first prize of her class in the New York Bench Show of 1877. She is small, but finely formed, and beauti- ful both in color and action. 12. American Snipe (page 259). Though commonly called English Snipe, and formerly supposed to be identical, this is an American bird, the differences first having been ascertained and designated by Dr Alex- ander Wilson, the celebrated Ornithologist. The bird in the engraving â was shot on the Hackensack Meadows, and owing to its size and beauty, preserved for illustration. Snipe shooting is described, page 255. 13. Woodcock, (page 259). The engraving represents the American Woodcock. Though smaller than the English bird, it is fully as hand- somely marked and held in equal estimation by epicures of both coun- tries. The bird described flew from its feeding ground across a village street in Bergen, New Jersey, and dashing through the window of a drug store broke its neck against the stove. 14. American Hare (page 273). Suggestions regarding the hunting of hares in the United States are given, page 275. 15. Shooting Deer at a Salt-Lick (page 277). The engraving repre- sents a favorite and successful mode of hunting deer in the United States, and is described, page 280. 16. Buffalo Hunters' Camp (page 2S1). This scene, representing buffalo hunters, curing the hides of the animals, was sketched in South- em Kansas by one of the contributors to this volume. The present ranges of the buffalo ai"e des
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