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| Guggisberg, C.A.W. | |
| Pale or Chinese Desert Cat _Felis bieti _(Milne Edwards 1892) | |
| 1975 Book Chapter | |
Characteristics, distribution and habits of the pale or chinese desert cat. When Prince Henry d'Orleans attempted to cross Tibet at the head of a scientific expedition in 1889, he was stopped near the forbidden city of Lhasa and forced to turn east toward Szechwan. While strolling in the fur markets of Tatsienlu and Torgolo, his zoological collector picked up the first two skins of a feline that was to puzzle taxonomists until a skull became available for examination in 1925. Long thought to stand very near to the jungle cat, the species was eventually found to be allied to the wildcat, so closely, in fact, that the two easternmost forms of the latter, the Gobi cat (subspecies chutuchia) and the long haired Ordos cat (subspecies vellerosa), were for some time regarded as identical with the Chinese desert cat. |
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