The old heavy lumbering Spanish pointer is said to be no more, at least, in this country; but, judging from specimens we still see occasionally at shows, he has not been entirely improved out of existence in the British Isles. As the source of our far more elegant, faster, and stauncher pointer, we must speak of him with feelings of regret for the obsolete that was useful in its day.

MR. G. THORPE BARTRAM'S POINTER "SPECIAL." Sire Pax (K.C.S.B. 935) - Dam Romp (K.C.S.B 4249).

Compared with the modern English pointer, he was bigger, coarser, and clumsier. Standing higher on the leg, his coarse head and badly balanced body gave him an over-topped appearance. His feet were apt to be flat and spreading, which added to his slowness; but in nose he excelled, and to careful breeding from him the present pointers' high qualities in that respect are due. Close observers may still see in litters, bred without the exercise of care and judgment, specimens with unknit frames, unsymmetrical build, and heavy chumpy heads - evidence of their origin from a dog most useful in his day.

No detailed description of him is necessary, but we owe too much to him altogether to ignore his existence and the influence he has had on the modern race.