Felis Collection (page 2)

Egyptian mummified cat
Photograph of an Egyptian mummified cat. Over 2000 years ago, an ancient Egyptian painstakingly wrapped and embalmed this domestic cat as a religious offering to an animal-headed god

Young Cheetah - Fighting with a Wild Cat (Felis silvestris) (Acinonyx jubatus). Serengeti - Tanzania - Africa. Latin also Felis sylvestris

Naturally mummified Felis catus, cat
Dried cat found during the demolishing of property on the Duke of Bedfords estate. May 1915. The cat is thought to be approximately 300 years old and had been buried in an air-tight brick-lined cavity

Catopuma temminckii, Asian golden cat
Felis temminckii. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899)

Puma (Lydeker)
(felis concolar) also known as the COUGAR, and even as the PANTHER or MOUNTAIN LION. Resident in South America

Cat

Felis pajeros. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Felis silvestris ornata, Asian steppe wildcat
Felis ornata. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Felis scripta
Plate 57 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Felis fontanierii, North China panther
Plate 30 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Panthera pardus nimr, Arabian leopard
Arabin leopards, arabia felici, Panthera pardus nimr. Plate 17 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Felis silvestris silvestris, European wildcat
Felis catus. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Cat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Felis silvestris catus, cat
Felis domestica. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Oncifelis colocolo, pampas cat
Felis pajeros. Plate 9 from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol 1, Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Panthera onca, jaguar and Tapirus indicus, Asian tapir
Felis onca. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Prionailurus euptilura, Amur leopard cat

Uncia uncia, snow leopard
Felis uncia. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Chrysoberyl
Shown here is a crystal and a cut stone of chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide). Chrysoberl is a gemstone and is also known as cats eye

Felis silvestris, cat
Photograph of the left view of a domestic cat skull from the education collection at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Faceted chrysoberyl
Two cut stones of the gemstone chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide). This stone is also known as cats eyes

Chrysoberyl cats eyes
Two stones of Chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide), illustrating the similarity the gemstone has with a cats eye

Wild Cat (Stewart)
felis silvestris Date: circa 1840

Wild Cat (Anon)
felis silvestris Date: circa 1860

Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Urani?, Hydra, Felis, Lupus
Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniae, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and Pyxis Nautica

Caracal (Lydekker)
(felis caracal) Also known as the Desert Lynx, It can spring about 3 metres vertically, and bats flying birds with its paws

Whittaker Star Map 26
Including Crater and Felis

Marco, Lion of Tower
(felis leo) This is Marco, a resident of the Tower Menagerie in London

Lynx (Lydeker)
(felis lynx) There are several species of lynx - this is the Northern Lynx

Caracal (Bewick)
felis caracal Found in Asia and Africa : this may be the creature named the lynx by classical writers

Cougar (Bewick)
felis concolar COUGAR or COUGUAR

Domestic Cat (Bewick)
Felis felis : to describe an animal so well known, might seem a superfluous task

Jaguar (Bewick)
Felis onca : rather larger than the panther

Lynx (Bewick)
Felis lynx

Panther (Bewick)
Felis perdus

Serval (Bewick)
Felis serval - African wild cat

Wild Cat (Bewick)
Felis catus, or chat sauvage

Ounce (Bewick)
Felis uncia. A wild cat similar to the leopard, also known as the Mountain Panther or Snow Leopard

Ocelot (Bewick)
Felis pardalis. A wild cat from central America, it is of course hunted for its coat and is an endangered species

EYRA
Felis eyra. This beautiful byt probably aggressive wildcat is found in Mexico and Texas. It probably does not make a good household pet

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