Dalmatian Dog

NAILS--The nails in the black-spotted variety should be black and white in the liver-spotted variety brown and white.

TAIL--The tail should not be too long, strong at the insertion, and gradually tapering towards the end, free from coarseness. It should not be inserted too low down, but carried with a slight curve upwards, and never curled. It should be spotted, the more profusely the better.

COAT--The coat should be short, hard, dense and fine, sleek and glossy in appearance, but neither woolly nor silky.

COLOUR AND MARKINGS--These are most important points. The ground colour in both varieties should be pure white, very decided, and not intermixed. The colour of the spots of the black-spotted variety should be black, the deeper and richer the black the better; in the liver-spotted variety they should be brown. The spots should not intermingle, but be as round and well-defined as possible, the more distinct the better; in size they should be from that of a sixpence to a florin. The spots on head, face, ears, legs, tail, and extremities to be smaller than those on the body.

WEIGHT--Dogs, 55 lbs.; bitches, 50 lbs.

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