Third, the neck must be set into well-laid-back shoulders. In a correctly-made Scottish Terrier, the angle formed by the back line of the neck and the top line of the skull is a right angle, but the apex of that angle leans slightly forward from the dog. When the dog is standing at attention and looking forward, then, the topline of the skull is not horizontal and the dog looks outward and downward, but not up, as illustrated below.
