http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorTan.html

> There is also milk sable in English Shepherds:
>
> The border collie Nick on this page is bbee (which masks whatever
> tanpoint or sable gene may exist at the ay locus)
>
> and also has a chinchilla series gene that causes the color to be
paler.
>
> Other dogs without the ch gene of the color called clear sable in ES
are
> pictured below Nick.
>
>
> Elaine
> >
> > >hey, since we're speaking of colour.  is there a
> > >colour name for something that's lighter than sable?
> > >every once in a while, in a number of herding breeds,
> > >i see a colour that looks almost like a combo of tawny
> > >(no dark points) & white.  are you or anyone here
> > >familiar w/ the colour i'm talking about?
> > >
> >
> > Magg,
> >
> > What you may be seeing is what we refer to as a Pure-For-Sable,
which
> > occurs
> > in sable to sable breedings. The dark points in the sables are
usually
> > caused by the dog have black genes in it's makeup from a Tri color
> parent.
> > Sable to sable breedings, if done repeatedly, will wash out the
color,
> so
> > a
> > Tri is thrown into the mix to keep things darker.
> >
> > Jill