THE CAT TRIBE 73 
specimens that it attaches itself to the indi- 
vidual, while of another in the same litter you 
will get an element of wildness. A third of the 
same parents will sober down to the house, 
but take only a passing notice of people. You 
can teach it anything if it is tractable, make it 
follow like a dog, come to whistle, but it will 
have its independence. 
The Sanp-coLourED Ca‘, with a whole- 
coloured coat like the rabbit, which we know 
as the ApyssINIAN or Bunny Cart, is a strong 
African type. On the Gold Coast it comes 
down from the inland country with its ears all 
bitten and torn away in its fights with rivals. 
It has been acclimatised in England, and Devon- 
shire and Cornwall have both established a new 
and distinct tribe out of its parentage. The Manx Car is nearly allied to it, and a hundred 
years ago the tailless cat was called the Cornwall Cat, not the Manx. 
Siam sends us a regal aminal in the Siamese Roya. Cat; it has a brown face, legs, and tail, 
a cream-coloured body, and mauve or blue eyes. The Siamese take great care of their cats, for 
it is believed that the souls of the departed are transmitted into the bodies of animals, and the 
cat is a favourite of their creed; consequently the cats are highly cultivated and intelligent, and 
can think out ways and means to attain an end. 
I have tried for years to trace the origin of the LonG-HaIRED or PERSIAN Cats, but I cannot 
find that they were known to antiquity, and even the records of later times only mention the 
SHORT-HAIRED. European literature does not give us an insight into the subject; and unless 
Chinese history holds some hidden 
lights in its records, we are thrown 
back upon the myths of Persia to 
account for the wonderful modern 
contribution of the long-haired cat, 
which is gradually breeding out 
into as many varieties as the short- 
haired, with this difference—that 
greater care and trouble are taken 
over the long-haired, and they will, 
as a breed, probably soon surpass 
the short-haired for intelligence 
and culture. 
One variety is quite new and 
distinctive—the Smoke Lownc- 
HAIRED, whose dark brown or black 
surface-coat, blown aside, shows an 
under coat of blue and silver, with 
a light brown frill round its neck. 
All the other long-haired cats 
can pair with the short-haired 
THE «BUN” OR “TICKED” SHORT-HAIRED CAT 
r uring and marking, but I ee 
for colo ng &» This is one of the rarest of cats. It belongs to Miss K. Maud Bennett who has kindly 
have not yet seen a Bunny Lonc- had it photographed for this work 
HAIRED. 
Photo by E, Landor] [Ealing 
LONG-HAIRED CHINCHILLA 
Note the beautiful “ fluffiness’’ of this cat's fur 
Photo by H. Trevor Fessop 
