The lilac are actually a dove grey type of colour with a kind of maroon undertone when wet, I have only just got one breeding pair of these beauties. The description given to all other types of cavy is NON SELF here I have divided it into Smooth, Rough and Long coats. The young lady pictured here is a satin agouti. These cavies are very much like the Tortoishells only they must be of three other colours than that specified as a tort. A difficult one to describe, on an agouti, one single hair is of two colour, and this pattern is all over their body, for example a silver agouti, has hairs coloured black and silver.
Gold is the other common agouti, being black and gold.
Agoutis are a favourite of mine. This picture is of a lilac and white argente, at the momnet they are classed as a rare variety. Basically they have a lilac coloured undercoat, with white tips at the end of each hair. They are still very much in thier development stage. The crested breeds all have only one rosette in the centre of thier head, otherwise they are smooth coated.