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Yufeng, Y.; Drubgyal,; Achu,; Zhi, L.; Sanderson, J.
First photographs in nature of the Chinese Mountain cat
2007 Cat News (47): 6-7
The Chinese mountain cat_ Felis bieti_ was the last member of the family of cats described to science (Milne-Edwards 1892). The original description, provided only as a footnote, was made from skins acquired in China during an expedition in 1889 by Prince Henri of Orl‚ans (Milne-Edwards 1892) and returned to Paris. Though illustrations were by the late 1800s commonly produced when describing a species new to science, no illustration was included in the description of Felis bieti. Neither the Prince nor the mammalogist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, employed at the Mus‚e d'Historie Naturelle in Paris, saw the living cat and knew its habitat, but this was not unusual at this time in history. The species name bieti assigned by Milne-Edwards derives from his Lordship Biet who led the French missionaries in China.
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