PET RABBITS, CAVIES, AND MICE. ^5 



TANS. 



Are divided into blacks and blues. The ideal is the 

 black and blue and tan terrier dog. They are probably 

 obtained by the crossing of blues and blacks with sables, 

 but we should not mind pairing a golden agouti buck in 

 a blue or black doe, and then reversing the order in the 

 young a time or two just for a trial. If you get foul 

 hairs you must mate and re-mate the clearest in the black 

 or blue to get rid of them. At present the tans shown 

 are very far from the standard. What is wanted is a 

 black or a blue, dense and trebly glossy, with tan mark- 

 ings along the edge of the belly, up the chest, on the 

 nostrils not the nose, on the inside rims of the ears, 

 along the jowl end, all down the insides of the hind 

 feet, in a ring round each eye, on each toe of the fore 

 feet, well under the belly, and in the form of a triangle 

 at the neck, behind the ears. The denser the tan the 

 better. 



There may be other colours in mice that we have 

 missed, but it is enough to feel that all or any of the 

 above-mentioned can be bred systematically and to 

 a state of perfection. 



FINIS. 



