The cat, a guide to the classification and varieties of cats and a short tratise upon their care, diseases, and treatment (1895) (14784359073)

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Title: The cat, a guide to the classification and varieties of cats and a short tratise upon their care, diseases, and treatment
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, 1854-1901
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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.The black is the most \alued of colors in thePersian. A good, rich, deep black, with orange-colored eyes and long flowing hair and a heavymane, constitutes the most perfect form. Thenext color in value is light slate or blue, whichmay yary much in its shades from a lilac hueto a deep-blue tone. Then follow the various VARIETIES 43 mixed colors of black and orange, not dis-tinctly blotched enough to be called a Tortoise-
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FiG. 10.—A Persian. shell, nor banded enough to be called a Tabby.The Tortoise-shell and the Tabby are never sowell marked in the Lone-haired Cats as in the 44 THE CAT Short-haired ones, because the longer hairs ofthe former blend with one another and do notallow so distinct a line of demarcation. SHORT-HAIRED CATS. The European or Western Cat. Tlie Short-haired Cat, otherwise known astlie Enropean or Western Cat, is the one de-rived from the Enropean Wildcat, with an in-termixtnre of the blood of the Egyptian Cat.Whatever may have been its original form—Avhicli was probably simply a modification ofthe form of the Wiklcat—and its color—which nndonl)tedly at first was the same as thegrayish coat of the Wildcat — it has chaiigedbnt little except as to a modification of size anda change of color, which is no more odd thanthe alterations of color of any other animalremoved from its natnral snrronndings andliving in civilization. The varieties we makeof the Short-haired Cat of to