brown. His dorsal line became a burnt golden brown, and the background colour was similar to a washed out sorrel colour (sorrel is a colour found in Abyssinians). There are a few oddities in his ancestry. His mother, Pearl, was a black Manx and his sire was a normal black/brown tabby from the same black Manx mother. The inbreeding was accidental, and may have brought out a recessive gene. Pearl was born to a black/red tortie (carrying dilute and colourpoint) and a red van-pattern sire; this pairing should not produce solid black females so, barring an anomaly in her sire's germ line, Pearl may be a tortie where the red has not been expressed in the coat. Pearl has also produced a kitten that changed from black with white ticking at the hair-tips, to black smoke and then to solid black without ticking. BIMETALLIC / SUNSHINE The informal term "bimetallic" (referring to a mix of silver and golden or silver-gilt)
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