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MATING. 



SPOTTED TABBY. 



For spotted tabby the best brown are those got by mating a 

 spotted red tabby, the darker the better, and a brown and 

 black spotted female. These should be carefally selected, 

 not only for their ground colour, but also for the round- 

 ness, distinctness, blackness, and arrangements of their 

 spots. 



For grays, blues, and light ash-coloured tabbies, the 

 same care should be exercised, the only difference being the 

 choice of ground colours. 



FANCY COLOURS. 



By other odd and fanciful combinations, many beautiful 

 mottles and stripes may be secured, and strange, quaint, 

 harmonious arrangements of lines and spots produced 

 according to "fancy's dictates;" but the foregoing are the chief 

 colours in request for exhibition purposes, and most of the 

 colour marking. In any other colour classes, the beauties, 

 whatever they may be, are chiefly the result of accident or 

 sports, selected for such beauty, or in other ways equally 

 interesting. 



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