Felis bieti Milne-Edwards, 1892

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 289

Felis bieti Milne-Edwards, 1892 . Rev. Gen. Sei. Pures Appi., 3:671.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Batang â Tatsien-Lou", restricted by Pousargues (1898:358) to "environ de Tongolo et de Ta-tsien-lou" [ China, Sichuan] .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to the dry steppe from the eastern flanks of the Tibetan plateau in C China north to Nei Monggol; perhaps to Mongolia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: chutuchta Birula, 1917; pallida Büchner, 1893 ; subpallida Jacobi, 1922; vellerosa Pocock, 1943.

COMMENTS: Haltenorth (1953) suggested chutuchta and vellerosa belonged in sylvestris .