TIIE RETRIEVER. This dog is most useful when [he birds are aquatic or are such as haunt sloughs, from which he will gather in the killed or wounded with unerring nose. '['hare are main ly two kinds, the English and the American, or Chesapeake Bay dog. The English variety has been generated mainly by (Tossing two other breeds, such as the spaniel and Newfoundland, or the spaniel and poodle, one breed tough skinned and stiffly coated, and both dogs of re markable powers of scenting. The rest is a mat ter of training. There are two distinct strains of the English retriever, the curly-coated black, and the flat or wavy-coated. The latter has the appearance of a heavily made, somewhat clumsy setter, with more bone and substance than is re quired in a fast field dog. The former has the body covered with short curls, though the head is smooth. The curly variety may he either black or liver-eolored. Each weighs from 55 to 68 pounds. As the function of this dog is to carry dead game, the jaws should be long and strong; and that his scenting powers may have full ea pacity the nose should be wide, the nostrils open, and its end moist and cool.
The Chesapeake Bay flog is the Ameriean re trieve• pure and simple. The origin is prob lematic, but he derives his name, like the New foundland, from the home where he first became famous. He is the finest retriever in the world. No sea is too boisterous, no water too cold, no bird too big, from a Canada goose to a swan, and no wounded bird, be he diving duck or crippled woodcock, can escape his nose and swimming skill. De is a large dog, weighing 65 pounds, with a thick, short, coarse, sedge-grass-colo•ed coat about an inch and a half in length, and with a tendency to wave over the shoulders, back, and loins, and underneath this a short woolly fur covering the whole skin. His legs are somewhat short and he is provided with •ell-webbed feet.