TORTOISESHELL-AND-WHITE CATS. 47 



desired colour in the he-cats by the legitimate method of 

 tortoiseshell with tortoiseshell, I would advise the trial of 

 some whole colours, such as solid black and white. This 

 7nay prove a better way than the other, as we pigeon fanciers 

 go an apparently roundabout way often to obtain what we 

 want to attain in colour, and yet there is almost a certainty 

 in the method. 



As regards the tortoiseshell cat, there is a distinct variety 

 known to us cat fanciers as the tortoiseshell-tabby. This 

 must not be confounded with the true variety, as it consists 

 only of a variegation in colour of the yellow, the red, and 

 the dark tabby, and is more in lines than patches, or patches 

 of lines or spots. These are by no means ugly, and a well- 

 marked, richly-coloured specimen is really very handsome. 

 They may also be intermixed with white, and should be 

 marked the same as the true tortoiseshell ; but in compe- 

 tition with the real tortoiseshell they would stand no chance 

 whatever, and ought in my opinion to be disquahfied as 

 being wrong class, and be put in that for "any other 

 colour." 



MRS. VYVYAN's royal CAT OF SIAM. 



