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TABBY CATS. 



BROWN TABBY— BARS THE RIGHT WIDTH. 



THE BROWN TABBY CAT. 



The tabby cat is doubtless one of, if not the most common 

 of colours, and numbers many almost endless varieties of 

 both tint and markings. Of these those with very broad 

 bands of black, or narrow bands of black, on nearly a 

 black ground, are usually called black tabby, and if the 

 bands are divided into spots instead of being in con- 

 tinuous lines, then it is a spotted black tabby ; but I 

 purpose in this paper to deal mostly with the brown 

 tabby — that is to say, a tabby, whose ground colour is 

 of a very rich, orangey, dark brown ground, without any 



