E. H. M. L.
Tailless Cats (Vol. ix., p. 10.).—On the day on which this Query met my eye, a friend informed me that she had just received a letter from an American clergyman travelling in Europe, in which he mentioned having seen a tailless cat in Scotland, called a Manx cat, from having come
from the Isle of Man. This is not "a Jonathan." Perhaps the Isle of Man is too small to swing long-tailed cats in.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Mr. T. D. Stephens, of Trull Green, near this town, has for some years had and bred the Manx tailless cat; and, I have no doubt, would have pleasure in showing them to your correspondent Shirley Hibberd, should he ever be in this neighbourhood.
K. Y.
Taunton.
A friend of mine, who resided in the Park Farm, Kimberley, had a breed of tailless cats, arising from the tail of one of the cats in the first instance having been cut off; many of the kittens came tailless, some with half length; and, occasionally, one of a litter with a tail of the usual length, and this breed continued through several generations.
G. J.