A cat of a long-haired breed having a pale coat with dark points, and blue eyes, developed by crossing Persian and Siamese cats.
色点猫
North American term Himalayan
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Subsequently, they were asked to write a breed standard for the Himalayan, a name the colorpoint longhair had acquired somewhere in transition between England and Canada.
This process was accelerated, one suspects, by the introduction of colorpoint longhairs to Birman breeding programs.
Mitted cats, which can be blue, chocolate, lilac or seal, are colorpoint cats with a broken or evenly matched white blaze on the nose and/or between the eyes.
Another Siamese-related breed, the colorpoint shorthair, was also gaining recognition throughout the late '60s and early '70s.
These outcrosses were chosen to produce as many colors and patterns as possible, including the colorpoint pattern of the Siamese.