VARIETIES 49 



is a popular superstition that Tortoise-shells 

 are all females; but this is not the case, for 

 while females are in the majority, males are 

 often to be found, and sometimes are grand, 

 beautiful, large animals. 



MERITS. The Tortoise-shell is one of the 

 best of hunters of all the families of the cat, 

 is a most patient mouser, and is brave to the 

 extreme. It is not over-affectionate, and some- 

 times even sinister and most ill tempered in its 

 disposition. 



THE TORTOISE-SHELL-AND- WHITE. 



Another variety of the Tortoise-shell which 

 is frequently seen is one in which there is an 

 intermixture of a certain amount of white, 

 which is usually seen in a blaze on the face, 

 a white breast, and white forelegs and hind- 

 legs, the latter not usually having so much 

 as the former. 



HEAD. The head is small, broad across the 

 forehead and between the eyes. It is round 

 above and depressed toward the lips. 



EYES. The eyes are orange-yellow, full, 

 large, round, and lustrous. 



