OTHER COLOUR" PERSIANS. 



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should not be encouraged. In the same way, 

 a tabby-and-white is a bad tabby, and ought 

 not to go to a show at all, but even if shown 

 has no right in the ' any other colour ' class, 

 according to my ideas." 



There is one cat that is fast vanishing from 

 our midst. I mean the black - and - white 

 Persian, and yet I confess an evenly marked 

 specimen is a handsome animal. By black and 

 white I mean the ground should be black, 

 dense and glossy ; the feet, chest, and nose 

 white, with a blaze of white coming to a point 

 up the centre of the face. The eyes of such a 

 cat should be orange. 



Another type is the white-and-black cat, but 

 unless the black patches are evenly balanced, 

 especially in the face, the effect is not pleasing 

 (see illustration, page 232). Harrison Weir 

 gives particulars of some curiously marked 

 cats coming under his notice " one entirely 

 white with black ears ; another white with a 

 black tail only ; another had the two front 

 feet black, all else being white." 



I cannot say I have any leaning towards 

 tabby-and-white cats, or orange-and-white, 

 these being the least attractive of any in the 

 fancy. Blue-and-whites are seldom seen, but 

 the photos on pp. 234-5 represent some sweetly 

 pretty kittens of this variety. Their sire was 

 ' Yani," a noted blue owned by Miss E. God- 

 dard, and their mother a black-and-white. Blue 

 tabbies, so common fifteen or twenty years ago, 

 are no longer to be seen, at least only here and 

 there at shows, and they have really no value 

 beyond being pretty pets. A cat that has done 

 some winning and has sired some lovely kittens, 

 but must, strictly speaking, be considered an 

 "any other colour" cat, is "Blue Robin," 

 formerly the property of Miss H. Cochran, and 

 now in the possession of Mr. C. W. Witt. This 

 is a blue cat with a tabby-marked head. He 

 was bred from blues and silvers, and his chin, 

 ear tufts, and eyebrows are silver, and his 

 nose pink. As will be seen from his picture, 

 on page 236, he has a grand head and beautiful 

 expression. I am indebted to Miss Hester 

 Cochran for the following notes on " any 

 other coloured " cats : 



" The cats known as ' A.O.C.'s ' or ' any 

 other colour,' because they are of a colour 

 for which no class is provided, are hard to 

 write about, because they have no history. 

 They are not bred from A.O.C.'s, and A.O.C.'s 

 are not bred from them. They are either 

 pedigreeless or, more commonly, the result of 

 indiscreet crossing of two definite colours, as, 

 for example, when the owner of a white queen 

 wishes to breed a litter of blue kittens. More 

 rarely they result from a cross which' has been 

 resorte4 to to fix some special point, as when a 

 white and a blue with particularly massive 

 heads or wonderful orange eyes have been 

 mated with a view to producing a strain noted 

 for their eyes. Years ago the classes were 

 interesting, as they introduced all new colours. 

 " I remember an A.O.C. class at the Crystal 

 Palace not many years ago containing seven 

 entries, all good smokes ; soon after smoke 

 classes were given, and then chinchillas 

 began to appear in this class. These cats 

 being specially provided for, creams were the 

 most noticeable A.O.C.'s ; but now the blue 

 tabbies and broken-coloured cats that is, 



some colour and 

 white usually 

 occupy the A.O.C. 

 class. Notable 

 instances of cats 



" LOCKHAVKN COLBUKN.' 1 



A GOOD EXAMPLE OF PERFECT BLACK-AND-WHITE MARKINGS. 

 (Photo : Koehne & Bretsinan, Chicago.) 



