Brown Blue Silver Light Gray And White Tabby Long-haired Cats

POINTS

HEAD 10



Round and broad across and between the eyes, of medium size;

nose rather short; ears ordinary size, but looking small,

being surrounded with long hair, which should also be long on

the forehead and lips.



EYES 10


< r /> Orange-yellow for brown and blue tabby, very slightly tinted

with green; deep, bright yellow for silver; gray, and golden

yellow for white tabby; large, full, round, or almond-shaped,

and very lustrous.



RUFF OR FRILL 10



Large, very long, flowing, and lion-like, extending over the

shoulders, and covering the neck and chest thickly.



FUR 10



Very long everywhere, mostly so along the back, sides, legs,

and feet, making tufts between the toes, and points at the

apex of the ears.



QUALITY OF FUR 10



Fine, silky, and very soft in the Persian, with slightly

woolly texture in the Angora, and still more so in the

Russian.



TAIL 10



In the Persian the hair long and silky throughout, but

somewhat longer at the base; Angora like the brush of a fox,

but longer in the hair; Russian equally long in the hair, but

more full at the end; tail shorter, rather blunt, like a

tassel.



SIZE, SHAPE, AND CONDITION 10



Large, small in bone, looking larger than it really is on

account of the length of the hair; body long; legs short;

tail carried low, not over the back, which is a fault; fur

clean and glossy, even, smooth, and flakey, which gives an

appearance of quality.



COLOUR 15



Ground colour, deep, rich reddish-brown, more rufous on the

nose, ears, mane, and inside the legs and belly; tip of nose

red, edged with black; blue, bright, deep, rich, even, dark

colour; silver, lighter and equally even tint; and so light

gray; and white ground, pure white.



MARKINGS 15



Jet-black lines, not too broad, scarcely so wide as the

ground colour seen between, so as to give a light and

brilliant effect. When the black lines are broader than the

colour space, it is a defect, being then black marked with

colour, instead of colour marked with black. The lines must

be clear, sharp, and well-defined, in every way distinct,

having no mixture of the ground colour. Head, legs, and tail

regularly marked, the latter with rings, the lines on the

throat and chest being in no way blurred or broken, but

clear, graceful, and continuous; lips, cushions of feet, the

backs of the hind-legs and the ear-points black.



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TOTAL 100





In chocolate, mahogany, red, or yellow long-haired tabbies, the markings

and colours to be the same as in the short-haired cats; but in points to

count the same as the last in all qualities.



Spotted tabbies to count the same in all points, the only difference

being that instead of stripes, the cats are marked with clear,

well-defined spots.



All fancy colours to be shown in the "any other variety of colour"

class, and judged according to quality of coat, beauty, and rarity of

colouring or marking. The small, thin, broken-banded tabby should go in

this class, as also those with thin, light, wavy lines.



All foreign, wild, or other cats of peculiar form to go into the class

for "any other variety or species."