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WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



times all black from melanism." Curiously 

 enough, Dr St George Mivart, in his monograph 

 on ' The Cat,' draws no distinction between the 

 two completely different types which are both 

 popularly known as "tabby." For, in addition 

 to the true tabby spoken of by Darwin and Gray, 



Grey and tabhy cats. 



one frequently sees cats marked in a manner very 

 similar to the European wild cat — namely, with 

 a dark band along the spine and a number of 

 small and narrow stripes or streaks branching 

 from it at right angles so as to mark the animal 

 somewhat after the fashion of a tiger, but usually 

 leavinof so much of the neutral grround tint visible 

 that at a little distance the cat seems to be of 



