The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . aviour. Italy boasts several breeds of dogs for the gun,and the brachs of that country may be roughlydivided into two classes—those over and thoseunder two feet high. Both types of bracco havean oval head with long, straight muzzle, pendu-lous lips, curly ears set in the line of the eye,large and deep chest, short, broad loins,strong, straight legs with the forefeet broadand muscular, and the hind feet with onedewclaw or even with two. Those withoutdewclaws may be regarded as having somepointer blood in them. In colour
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . aviour. Italy boasts several breeds of dogs for the gun,and the brachs of that country may be roughlydivided into two classes—those over and thoseunder two feet high. Both types of bracco havean oval head with long, straight muzzle, pendu-lous lips, curly ears set in the line of the eye,large and deep chest, short, broad loins,strong, straight legs with the forefeet broadand muscular, and the hind feet with onedewclaw or even with two. Those withoutdewclaws may be regarded as having somepointer blood in them. In colour, thebracco is white and orange, white andliver, iron grey, or roan. 1 Lilian fanciers regard this as the parentstock of not only every Continental breed,but also of English pointers. There is in Italy another very importantdog, known as the Spinone. In colourit is grey and roan, and although it is, onthe whole, not unlike the bracco, it maybe recognised by its less oval head, as wellas by the shorter and less supple ear. Thecoat is all wire-haired, excepting the legs,. BRAQUE LEGERFrench1. where the hair is quiteshort, though alsor o u g hi I t 1 s a 1 s oshorter and smootheron the head andmuzzle. The eyelashesare long and straight,and the lip has bristlingmoustaches. As in thecase of the bracco, thedewclaw on the hindfoot is a sign of spinone is con-sidered an ancient form of dog, and we knowat any rate that some of the breed were broughtinto France as far back as the reign of Henri is in Italy an interesting breed of white spinone, no record of which occurs earlier thanthe year 1870 ; and this white race—which comesfrom the neighbourhood of Alba, in Piedmont—is said to have sprung from a cross with the well-known Russian griffons, introduced by an officernamed Ruggieri at the time of the wars of theFirst Empire. The true Italian spinone is
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