. The pet book. Pets. FANCY MICE It is difficult to believe that the Golden, Brown, and Black and Spotted fancy mice were really de- scended from our little gray house mouse, but this is a fact which has been dis- covered by scientists. It seems that the hairs in the fur of the house mouse contains black, chocolate and yellow pigments, arranged so that the base of the hair is black, the tip is yellow, while between it is barred with chocolate brown. Mice are likely to give birth now and then to pink-eyed, piire-white albino off- spring ; these have been selected and bred until a race of albino
. The pet book. Pets. FANCY MICE It is difficult to believe that the Golden, Brown, and Black and Spotted fancy mice were really de- scended from our little gray house mouse, but this is a fact which has been dis- covered by scientists. It seems that the hairs in the fur of the house mouse contains black, chocolate and yellow pigments, arranged so that the base of the hair is black, the tip is yellow, while between it is barred with chocolate brown. Mice are likely to give birth now and then to pink-eyed, piire-white albino off- spring ; these have been selected and bred until a race of albinos has been established, and thus we get our white mice as pets. By breeding these albinos with the house mice the colors in the coat of the latter have been separated, and some disappear altogether, and thus our fancy mice have been developed. The Golden Agouti has the same arrangement of pigment in the hairs as the house mouse, except that the yellow tips have been exaggerated so that this mouse is golden in color. The Sable is like the Agouti, except that its back is dark, and it is golden yellow underneath and at the sides. The Cinnamon has only the yellow and the chocolate pigments in the hair, the black being left out, while the Black has chocolate and black pigments, but no yellow, and the Fawn has yellow and black with the brown left out. The Red and Yellow varieties carry only the yellow pigment. The Chocolate carries only the brown 105. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930; Lord, Henry B. ins; Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-1970 ins; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. ins. Ithaca, N. Y. : Comstock
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