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Title: Bird dogs in sport and conservation
Identifier: birddogsinsportc42yeat (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Yeatter, Ralph Emerson, 1896-
Subjects: Bird dogs; Dogs
Publisher: Urbana
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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YEATTER: BIRD DOGS IN SPORT AND CONSERVATION 41 The Gordon is not common in Illinois, but a few dogs of this handsome breed can be found here and there in the state. The coat of the Gordon Setter should be straight or slightly wavy, silky, and deep, lustrous black in color. Tan markings occur above the eyes, on the sides of the muzzle, on the throat and chest, on the forelegs up to the elbows, and inside the hind legs and thighs. Present bench standards call for shoulder heights of 24 to 27 inches for mature males, 23 to 26 inches for females; weights should be 55 to 75 pounds for males and 45 to 65 pounds for females. Irish Sett-er.âThe Irish Setter was a popular hunting dog in his native Ireland more than 2 centuries ago and, as early as the first decades of the nineteenth century, it had become estab- lished throughout the British Isles. There is no certainty as to the origin of this hunting dog, but officials of the Irish Setter Club of America believe that a combination of English Setter, spaniel and Pointer blood, with a trace of the Gordon Setter, â ^^«^."
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