The Persian Cat differs from the Angora in several essential details. The head is rather larger, with ears less pointed, although these also have tufts of hair at their points. The eyes are large and full. The Persian is larger in the body, and has broader and stronger loins, and from its stronger conformation equals in its activity and strength the graceful form of the more tiger-like Angora. The tail in the Persian is rather longer, turns slightly upward at its tip, and has a greater growth of hair at the end, instead of at the base of the tail as in the Angora. The colors of the Persian are variable; they may be white, black, blue, chinchilla, smoke, and variable degrees of Tortoise-shell and Tabby; but Mr. Weir is again authority for the statement that the Tortoise-shell and the dark-marked Tabby are not Persian Cat colors, but are obtained by crossing with the Short-haired Tortoise-shell and also with the English Tabby. The black is the most valued of colors in the Persian. A good, rich, deep black, with orange-colored eyes and long flowing hair and a heavy mane, constitutes the most perfect form. The next color in value is light slate or blue, which may vary much in its shades from a lilac hue to a deep-blue tone.

Then follow the various mixed colors of black and orange, not distinctly blotched enough to be called a Tortoise shell, nor banded enough to be called a Tabby. The Tortoise-shell and the Tabby are never so well marked in the Long-haired Cats as in the.

Short-haired ones, because the longer hairs of the former blend with one another and do not allow so distinct a line of demarcation.

Fig. 10. - A Persian.