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BLUE CATS. 



ARCHANGEL BLUE CAT. 



THE BLUE CAT. 



This is shown often under a number of names. It was at 

 first shown as the Archangel cat, then Russian blue, 

 Spanish blue, Chartreuse blue, and, lastly, and I know not 

 why, the American blue. It is not, in my belief, a distinct 

 breed, but merely a light-coloured form of the black cat. 

 In fact, I have ascertained that one shown at the Crystal 

 Palace, and which won many prizes on account of its 

 beautiful blue colour slightly tinged with purple, was the 

 offspring of a tabby and white she-cat and a black-and-white 

 he-cat, and I have seen the same colour occur when bred 

 from the cats usually kept about a farmhouse as a protection 

 from rats and mice, though none of the parents had any 

 blue colour. 



