. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. MISS LEFROYS KOMONDOR CSINOS. simple. When a disastrous avalanche and a visitation of distemper decimated the kennels of the St. Bernard Hospice, Herr Essig, of Leonberg, generously returned to the superior of the hospice a St. Bernard dog and bitch, which had been presented to him. Before returning them he allowed the dog to be mated with a Newfoundland, and the result was the so-caUed Leonberg dog. This was
. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. MISS LEFROYS KOMONDOR CSINOS. simple. When a disastrous avalanche and a visitation of distemper decimated the kennels of the St. Bernard Hospice, Herr Essig, of Leonberg, generously returned to the superior of the hospice a St. Bernard dog and bitch, which had been presented to him. Before returning them he allowed the dog to be mated with a Newfoundland, and the result was the so-caUed Leonberg dog. This was some fifty years ago, since when the variety has prospered spasmodically. At the Paris dog show of 1907, ten Leonbergs were entered in the Chicns dc Montag-:ic class. They were good-looking dogs, fa^'Ouring the Newfoundland rather than the St. Bernard. Most of them were sables with dark points ; but the English visitor, remembering their origin, reflected that m a country where we have St. Bernards such as Cinq Mars, and Newfoundlands such as Shelton Viking, there IS no occasion to covet the descendants of Herr Essig's experiment. Of the Berghund it is enough to say that it was a large dog fabricated in ^^'aldheim as a rival to the Leonberg. The Owtchar, or Russian Sheepdog.— ~ J^'^' type, with drop ears and deep white coats, are curiously distributed over Europe. The pastoral dog of the Abruzzes, often called the sheepdog of the ;\Iaremmes, is decidedly of this character, and might readily pass for the Komondor. The Leonberg.—It may be expected that something should here be said of the Leonberg dog, as it is supposed also to be a worker among flocks and herds. The variety is recog- nised in Germany and France as a legitimate breed, and spe- cimens may be seen at most of the Continental shows, but in England we have discarded the dog as a transparent mongrel, even as we rejected the Berg- hund. Some thirty years ago, when large dogs were in much re- quest, efforts were made
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