[Illustration: FIG. 1.--SKINS OF THE BLOTCHED DOMESTIC CAT, SHOWING
SOME OF THE VARIATIONS TO WHICH THE PATTERN IS LIABLE. (Cf. Fig. 5 on
Plate II.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 2.--SKINS OF THE STRIPED DOMESTIC CAT, GIVING THE
"TICKED" BREED AND A PARTIALLY ALBINO SPECIMEN. (Cf. Fig. 4 on Plate
II.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 3.--SKINS OF THE EUROPEAN WILD CAT, FROM
ROSS-SHIRE, SCOTLAND. (Cf. Fig. 1 on Plate II.)]
_Note_--Of the two types of colouration found in modern domestic cats,
the striped type obviously corresponds to the original wild cat as
seen in various parts of North Europe to-day. The origin of the
blotched as a special type is wholly unknown.
(Photos from Plates VIII., IX., and X., _P.Z.S._, 1907, by permission
of the Zoological Society of London.)