Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1796
Primary Source Reference:
A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), p. 31
Additional Source Text:
In his Natural History Lecture No. 4 (1799), Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Peale wrote: "It was alive in this City, and supposed to have been killed by eating some Rats that had been poisoned by Arsenic. It had not arrived at its full growth, which is about 4 times the size of our Domestic Cat: nor has it the beauty which probably it would have acquired in Maturity."
Notes:
Richard Harlan, in Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America (Philadelphia, 1825), pp. 96-98, described this species as the spotted mountain cat based on "A specimen of the adult, and very young animal, in Philadelphia Museum" / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194411
Specimen Type:
Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)
Peale's Common Name:
Mexican Cat
Peale's Scientific Name:
Ocelot, Buff.; Felis pardalis, Lin.
Current Common Name:
Ocelot
Current Scientific Name
Leopardus pardalis
