. HERE are two toy dogs in Beligum which differ only in the matter of coat, but which go by different names and are too evidently of terrier extraction to call for discussion on that point. The rough dog is called the Griffons Brux- ellois and the smooth dog the petit Braban^on. Of the latter we have had no specimens in this country, but from the illustrations in Count Bylandt's ** Dogs of all Nations " it looks like a rather well furnished and stumpy-headed black and tan toy terrier, and black and tan is one of its two colours, the other being red. These smooth "Braban^ons" com
. HERE are two toy dogs in Beligum which differ only in the matter of coat, but which go by different names and are too evidently of terrier extraction to call for discussion on that point. The rough dog is called the Griffons Brux- ellois and the smooth dog the petit Braban^on. Of the latter we have had no specimens in this country, but from the illustrations in Count Bylandt's ** Dogs of all Nations " it looks like a rather well furnished and stumpy-headed black and tan toy terrier, and black and tan is one of its two colours, the other being red. These smooth "Braban^ons" come also in the litters of Griffons so that they are undoubtedly closely related, yet red is the only proper colour of the Griffons Bruxellois, though they are now introducing Griffons of other colours in England. Count Bylandt calls these other than red dogs "Petit Griffon de toutes couleurs," and gives it in English "Variety Belgian toy ; He certainly should know these dogs and from his thus distinguishing the other colour dogs it is evident that they should not be included in a Griffons Bruxellois classification, as they seem to be doing in England at present. If those possessing the work referred to will turn to the Hollandsche Smoushond, the dog that fills the place in Holland and Belgium that the old Scotch terrier did thirty years ago in England, they will not fail to find the dog from which the Griffons Bruxellois sported as a lady's pet. Many years ago we saw a diminutive breed of "Scotch" terriers a London cabman had developed, which bore a great resemblance to the Griffons Bruxellois, except in the monkey face, but as the man we refer to was breeding a toy terrier he undoubtedly discarded all showing the apple-head and monkey face, for "it is only by the greatest care and selection that the tendency to the apple- head is overcome when diminution in size is sought for. The flat skull has been preserved in the Yorkshire terrier,
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