. 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. CHIEN GASCOGNE-SAINTONGEOIS. COMTE G. DE VEZIN'S SOUVERAINE. may be of any hound colour. Somewhat similar are the hounds of Austria, which are often all white, but otherwise re- semble the English Harriers. The ideal hunting dog in Germany is the Schweiss-hund, which has many of the characteristics of the Bloodhound. In the neighbourhood of Hanover he is popular as a limier, and is used for the purpose of trac
. 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. CHIEN GASCOGNE-SAINTONGEOIS. COMTE G. DE VEZIN'S SOUVERAINE. may be of any hound colour. Somewhat similar are the hounds of Austria, which are often all white, but otherwise re- semble the English Harriers. The ideal hunting dog in Germany is the Schweiss-hund, which has many of the characteristics of the Bloodhound. In the neighbourhood of Hanover he is popular as a limier, and is used for the purpose of tracking wounded deer. Marvellous stories are told of his powers of scent. The pre- vailing colour of the breed is red-tan, with a black mask, and in _ many instances there is a black saddle, which in- creases the resemblance to the English Blood- hound. Twenty-one inches at the shoulder is an average height. In gene- ral appearance he is a strong, long-bodied dog of symmetrical propor- tions. The skull is broad and slightly domed, with a well developed occi- pital bone. The forehead is slightly wrinkled, with projecting eyebrows, the muzzle square, the lips falling over in decided flews. There is loose skin about the cheeks, but it is not sufficiently heavy to draw down the lower eyelid and disclose the haw. The nasal bone is slightly aquiline, much broader than that of the Bloodhound. The ears are set high and are very broad, rounded at the ends and lying without folds close to the cheeks. With a long, strong neck, a broad, deep chest, a long, nicely arched back, and muscular quarters, he is, when seen at his best, an admirable representative of the Continental sporting hound, elastic in action, energetic in expression, and in shape and colour decidedly attractive. The Bavarian Schweiss-hund is somewhat smaller than the Hanoverian, but very similar in general type. A very distinctive hound is that of Russia, the Gontschaga Sobaka, of which the Czar and the Grand Dukes keep huge p
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