INHERITANCE OF COAT-COLOR IN CATS 543 
Dr. Little reports a mating (43) of a yellow-eyed white male 
by a cream and white female. A single yellow-eyed white female 
was produced. 
A mating (35) of a blue-eyed white Angora male (16) by a 
yellow-eyed short-haired white female produced three solid 
whites and a black that was self-colored except for very small 
white spots between the legs. A mating (36) of the same male 
by a maltese female produced a solid white and a near self black. 
Besides these I have three records of blue-eyed white females 
which produced both colored and white offspring. The male 
parents were unknown. One produced a solid white yellow-eyed 
female and a solid black male. One produced in two litters six 
solid white and three almost entirely black. The third produced 
a solid white and an intense striped tabby with belly, nose, 
breast, and feet white. 
Davenport (’05) reports a mating of a black Manx male by a 
blue-eyed, deaf, white female, which produced two whites, one 
black, one tiger, and one maltese. 
The interesting correlation of blue eyes and deafness with 
white coat is not yet satisfactorily explained. Dominance of eye 
color seems very irregular. I am informed by breeders of white 
cats that yellow-eyed by yellow-eyed may produce blue-eyed, 
and also that blue by blue may produce yellow. Odd-eyed 
cats also frequently appear in these crosses. 
Przibram (’08) reports experiments with odd-eyed white An- 
gora cats. Results were very irregular. The cats bred true to 
whiteness. As regards correlation of deafness and blue eyes, he 
Says, 
Von Interesse ist es, dass, soweit eine Priifung des Gehérs unter- 
nommen werden konnte, die blau-blauen erwachsenen Katzen alle 
vollig taub waren, was ja mit friiheren Beobachtungen von Darwin 
und Rawitz iibereinstimmt; die asymmetrischen Augenfarben scheinen 
dem ganz entsprechend mit einer halbseitigen, die Seite des blauen 
Auges betreffenden Taubheit betroffen zu sein. Die Correlation 
zwischen blauen Augen und Taubheit bleibt also auch bei der asym- 
metrischen Vererbung bestehen. Dabei bleibt die Correlation zwischen 
‘blauen Augen’ der Katzen und ‘Taubheit’ auch fiir die Kérperhalfe 
bestehen. 
