Group IV. Dogs Used With The Gun In Questing And Retrieving Game
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This section is from the book "British Dogs: Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding, Management, And Exhibition", by Hugh Dalziel. Also available from Amazon: British Dogs.
Group IV. Dogs Used With The Gun In Questing And Retrieving Game
Including:
1. The Black Spaniel.
2. The Cocker.
3. The Clumber Spaniel.
4. The Sussex Spaniel.
5. The Norfolk Spaniel.
6. The Irish Water Spaniel. 7. English Water Spaniel.
8. The Flat or Wavycoated Retriever.
9. The Curly-coated Retriever. 10. The Norfolk Retriever. 11. The Russian Retriever.
In conformation of head this group agrees closely with the preceding one. The spaniels and retriever, although not so closely allied as the setters and spanielsy are grouped together on the plan already explained. Youatt thus describes the head characteristics of the spaniel family: "The head moderately elongated, the parietals not approaching from their insertion, but rather diverging, so as to enlarge the cerebral cavities and the frontal sinuses, consequently giving to these dogs greater power of scent and intelligence."
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