302 RABBITS, CATS, AND CAVIES 



even legs and feet, the belly being usually of the golden 

 yellow only. 



Great advances have been made in the last fourteen 

 years when I think the first of this colour made their 

 appearance not only in the colour and ticking, but in the 

 size ; the forerunners of the beautiful little creatures now 

 seen being mean and snipy in heads, mixed and blurred in 

 colour, and wanting in size and dignity. 



The greys should be a beautiful silvery grey under 

 coat, with black tickings throughout in the same way as 

 the golden, making much the same shade as is associated 

 with a little animal many of my readers may have seen, 

 known as the ichneumon, and which has the reputation of 

 being a terrible foe to alligators by eating their eggs and 

 young ones when it can meet with either. Both the 

 Agoutis are very popular, and at shows where they have 

 not a class to themselves, a good specimen is often a hard 

 nut to crack in a class of mixed colours of Smooth 

 cavies or in Any Other Variety classes, as they have quite 

 a distinctive style of their own, and command attention 

 from all genuine cavy fanciers. 



BOLIVIAN OR ENGLISH TORTOISESHELL CAVIES 



The Tortoiseshell, as may be gathered from its name, 

 should have but three colours red, black and yellow ; 

 but anyone looking at a class of them would be surprised 

 to see how many changes may be rung upon them. 



The several marks or patches making up the shade 

 should join but not mix, and the more separate marks 



