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skin. In adult cats ghost patterns are occasionally seen. I have 
been able to classify all black or maltese kittens as either striped 
or blotched. <A lined cat lacking agouti has not yet been ob- 
tained, but this I am hoping to do in time by the proper crosses. 
Figure E is from the skin of a lined kitten at birth. It is an 
extremely ticked example and would probably have grown to a 
sooty yellow adult. The back is black, but well scattered with 
ticked hairs, thus differing from the skin shown in figure G. 
The transverse bands are shown about the edge of the skin at the 
sides and about the tail. The longitudinal bands are suggested 
by two ticked spots at the back of the neck. Just posterior to 
these spots are two parallel ticked lines. On the body near the 
tail may also be seen longitudinal bands. 
Fundamentally, then, the lined, the striped, and the blotched 
patterns are comparable, differing only in the width of the 
bands. 
A pair of lined cats is owned by the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia. The male is dark while the female is much lighter. A 
comparison of the degree of ticking of the two may be of interest. 
The back of the male is black, the sides very dark showing narrow 
ticked bands. The back of the female is dark but ticked and 
grades into sooty yellow on the sides, showing no dark banding. 
The banding on the head and breast of the male is for the most 
part black, while in the female it is brown shading to sooty. 
In the male the back and end of the tail are black, while ticked 
rings are seen only toward the base. In the female the entire 
tail is ringed with sooty yellow. In both animals the feet are 
sooty yellow, the soles black. In the male the black bands of the 
sides extend down the legs to the feet, while in the female the 
sooty yellow of the feet extends well up on the legs. 
b. Experimental data. When bred together (19) the lined cats 
produced four kittens—a dark-lined male, the skin of which is 
shown in figure G; a dark-blotched male, the skin of which is 
shown in figure H; a dark-blotched female, and a light-lined 
male (21). The last-mentioned animal has been raised and is 
now in the possession of Dr. Charles Penrose, of Philadelphia. 
It has been examined by the writer, who finds that at the age 
