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Taplin records that there were two types of spaniels at that time: —The larger Springing Spaniel (forerunner of the modern Springer Spaniel), which was used on all kinds of game. —The smaller Cocker or Cocking Spaniel, which was used for wood- cock shooting “to which they are more particularly appropriated and by nature seem designed.” He describes the Cocker as having “a shorter, more compact form, a rounder head, shorter nose, ears long (and the longer, the more admired), the limbs short and strong, the coat more inclined to curl than the springers. . . .” Already, the Cocker came in many colors: liver (brown) and white, red, red and white, black and white, solid liver “and not in- frequently black with tanned legs and muzzle.” This confirms black

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