Including:

1. The English Setter. 2. The Irish Setter, 3. The Gordon or Black and Tan Setter.

4. The Spanish Pointer.

5. The Pointer.

6. The Dropper.

This group corresponds sufficiently closely with Group II. in head formation to come also into the second division in the arrangement of M. Cuvier. Speaking broadly and generally, the head and muzzle of the modern varieties included in this group are slightly more elongated than the dogs embraced in Group II, with the exception of the bloodhounds. Setters are undoubtedly more closely allied to spaniels than to pointers, and naturalists would group the two former together and the pointers with the hounds, but the system of classification which for convenience I have adopted leaves no option but to place setters and pointers together, as the work they do and the manner of doing it are in strong accord.