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The English Setter is a medium-size breed of dog. It is part of the setter group, which includes the red Irish Setters , Irish Red and White Setters , and black-and-tan Gordon Setters . The mainly white coat has long silky fringes on the back of the legs, under the belly and on the tail.
The Gordon Setter is a Scottish large breed of dog, a member of the setter family that also includes both the better-known Irish Setter and the English Setter. Setter breeds are classified as members of either the Sporting or Gundog Group depending on the national kennel club or council. The original purpose of the breed was to hunt gamebirds.
The setter is a type of gundog used most often for hunting game such as quail, pheasant, and grouse. In the UK, the four setter breeds, together with the pointers, usually form a subgroup within the gundog group as they share a common function. However, the setter breeds each have subtle differences in head, bone and substance. [citation needed]
The Irish Setter (Irish: sotar rua, [1] literally "red setter") is a setter, a breed of gundog, and family dog originating in Ireland. The term Irish Setter is commonly used to encompass the show-bred dog recognised by the American Kennel Club as well as the field-bred Red Setter recognised by the Field Dog Stud Book .
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Presentation of the Lombok cross by Queen Wilhelmina at the Malieveld in The Hague, 6 July 1895 The Lombok Cross ( Dutch : Lombokkruis ) is a military award of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The medal was established to commemorate service in the Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem which took place between June and December 1894.
As late as 1875 at a conformation show in Dublin, there were 66 entries in the Irish Setter classes; 23 of these entries were red and white. At a show in Cork the next year, out of 96 entries, there were 36 red and white animals. This was when the fashion for solid red-coloured setters began, leading to a decline in red and white setter numbers ...
Setter was one of seventeen R-class destroyer delivered to the British Admiralty as part of the Sixth War Construction Programme. [1] The design was generally similar to the preceding M class, but differed in having geared steam turbines, the aft gun mounted on a raised platform and minor changes to improve seakeeping.