ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 104 Budapest, 2012 pp. 387–415 Catalogue of recent wild felids in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Mammalia: Felidae) B. BUZÁS1, I. KISPÁL2 & G. CSORBA2 1 Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, P.O.Box 29922, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. E-mail:
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[email protected] – The Mammal Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, currently houses 402 specimens of recent wild felids belonging to 48 taxa. The collection, which has been accumulated in the last 180 years, houses rarities purchased in the 19th cen- tury, specimens with zoo origins, materials from the museum’s own collecting trips and do- nations from Hungarian hunters and expatriates. In the present catalogue the following data are given for each entry: catalogue number, sex, age, type of preservation, source, name of collector and collection or registration date. – Mammal Collection, museum holdings. INTRODUCTION After the publication of BUZÁS &CSORBA (2010), which enumerated the primates held in the Mammal Collection of the Hungarian Natural His- tory Museum (HNHM), Budapest, the present catalogue lists 402 specimens of wild felids (i.e. excluding domestic cats) housed in the HNHM. The old- est specimen is a skin of a European wild cat (Felis silvestris silvestris) dona- ted to the Museum in 1837, the very first of the nearly 100 specimens of the species stored recently in the collection. As in the case of the primate hol- dings, during its long history the collection obtained specimens via private donations, professional collection trips, purchases, and official transmittance e.g.