Abstract
QUITE apart from its interest to the class for whom it is primarily intended (and to whose requirements it appears in every way admirably suited), this volume appeals strongly to the naturalist and to the student of variation. Despite certain pretensions (of which the author makes very short work) of some of them to derivation from “native breeds,” American sporting dogs, other than mongrels, are admittedly derived from English stocks, but their new environment, and the different conditions under which they are employed, have in all cases, except that of the greyhound, caused them to display considerable variation from the parent type. It is the author's description of these variations which will cause his volume to have a considerable interest and value to the naturalist.
The Sporting Dog.
By J. A. Graham. American Sportsman's Library. Pp. x + 327; illustrated. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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L., R. The Sporting Dog . Nature 70, 149–150 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070149b0
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