Seychellois Neuvieme is white with colored tail and head splashes (classic Turkish Van pattern).

Van pattern is known to animal geneticists as the Seychelles (Seychellois) pattern and is classified into three variants: The Turkish Van (white and red) is one good example of a bicolor breed. 'Black-mask cats' are so called because they look like they are wearing a black mask over their head. Instead, it has large black patches over a mostly white body, often with a black mask over the head. A cow cat does not have the solid black 'jacket' of the tuxedo cat. At least ВЅ should be colored, but not more than Вѕ the rest is white.вЂќ In comparison, The Cat Fancier Organization (CFA) says that вЂњcats with no more than a locket and/or button do not qualify for this color class.вЂќ ДЄnother type of black-and-white bicolor cat is referred to as a 'cow cat' or 'moo cat' and includes the magpie, cap-and-saddle and mask-and-mantle patterns. The Cat Registry FГ©dГ©ration Internationale FГ©line (FIFe) states that for a 'standard' bicolor coat to compete in shows: вЂњthe color patches must be clearly separated from each other, even in color and harmoniously distributed. The cat labelled 'bicolor' is the preferred pattern in show-quality bicolor purebred cats. There are also several patterns with their own names. ( June 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Д«icoloration in cats is graded from one to ten with one being completely black and ten being completely white. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. The cream and white bicolor cat is the rarest of the bicolors, while the black and white or 'blue' (grey) and white are the most common. The body markings of bicolor colorpoints become clearer with age, as the body fur of colorpoint cats darkens as the cats grow older and the white patches become more visible.Д«icolor cats that are black and white are sometimes called 'magpies'. Colorpoint (Himalayan pattern) cats can have bicolor points, although this variation is not recognized for showing. White spotting can also occur with any of the tabby patterns, resulting in tabby and white bicolors.

The Abyssinian has agouti (ticked tabby) fur, giving the appearance of even color with color-banded hairs In contrast, tabby cats have an agouti gene that produces striping of the coat.

Mostly-solid-color bicolor cats occur because there is a white spotting gene present along with a recessive allele of the agouti gene, which evens out the usual striped pattern of the colors of the coat. Bicolors are found in many cat breeds, as well as being common in domestic longhair and domestic shorthair cats. There are many patterns between, such as 'cap-and-saddle', 'mask-and-mantle' and ' magpie' (more randomly splashed). High-grade bicolor results in Van-pattern cats. Where there is low-to-medium grade white spotting limited to the face, paws, throat and chest of an otherwise black cat, they are known in the United States as a tuxedo cat. These range from Turkish Van pattern (color on the crown of the head and the tail only) through to solid color with a throat locket. There are various patterns of bicolor cat. Socks was a bicolor cat with low-grade spotting, or tuxedo cat.ДЄ bicolor cat or piebald cat is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example black or tabby. Chelsea Clinton's cat Socks (1989вЂ“2009) lived in the White House from 1993 to 2001.

Black and white kitten