Cats
They range from almost solid
colour cats with a white throat locket or white tail-tip, through to almost solid white cats with
black smudges on the nose or between the ears. You may have heard of them as tuxedo cats
(white mitts, white belly and white chin with an optional white tail-tip) or patched, pied,
particoloured, harlequin or magpie cats (usually white with coloured splashes on the back and
top of the head). The term covering all bicolour cats is "piebald" or "white spotted" with
some variants of the pattern being called the Seychelles pattern.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PIEBALD
The diagram above shows a typical progression from solid colour through to solid white. The
number by each diagram is the "Grade" of spotting from Grade 0 (no spotting) through to
Grade 10 (white spotting has obscured all of the base colour). The "solid colour" can be one
of the true solid colours e.g. black or grey, or a tabby colour or tortoiseshell (the bicolour is
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