Cats
American registries like to add "mink" after the Tonkinese
colours whereas British registries use the same name for that colour as is used in the
equivalent Siamese or Burmese colour. Confused? Don't worry - there are some cross-
reference tables later on!
The jet-black colour you known as "black" is called "ebony" and "ebony tabby" in Orientals,
"black" in solid coloured domestic shorthairs, "brown" when it refers to brown tabby
domestic shorthairs, "bronze" in Egyptian Maus, "tawny" in Ocicats and "ruddy" in
Abyssinians. In colour-pointed cats, "black" is called "seal". In Burmese it is "sable" or "seal
sepia" and in American Tonkinese it is "cinnamon" or "natural mink". In the Asian breed (self
Burmese cats) it has a breed name to itself "Bombay". Shaded silvers, black smokes and
chinchilla cats may look various shades of grey or silver, but they are black cats with silver
roots to their fur. Add dilution and it becomes "blue". Modify the dilution and it becomes
"caramel"
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