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Excerpt from The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles and Letters by Various Contributors, Reprinted From the "Field" Newspaper
Of Sporting dogs there was less need for discussion, as the several varieties were pretty well known to sportsmen 3 and, with the exception of the correspondence relating to the origin of the Gordon setter, to the various Cockers, and to the Sussex spaniel and the Retriever proper, there is little novelty to be found in the second edition of this book.
The portrait of the Gordon setter Kent, with which great fault was found, has been replaced by a more faithful one; and Roll has been added to Byron as illustrating another strain of the English setter.
The points of the various breeds have been, in nearly every case, care fully revised, and more minutely dissected, than they were before; and it is hoped that this will meet the views of the' majority of breeders of the Dog. Several fresh chapters have been added by the Editor on the Management of Dogs, in point of food and lodging, while the treatment of Distemper, Mange, and other parasites, has been brie?y but plainly laid down.
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