Cats
Siamese) was
described by
Harrison Weir in
1889 and by Frances
Simpson in1903,
however the "Royal Siamese" with its greater contrast between body and points was the form
that predominated in Britain and the Chocolate Siamese was lost. The Chocolate Siamese is
variously claimed to be an early Burmese or an early Havana Brown type cat. The founding
female of the Burmese breed, Wong Mau, was a walnut-brown Tonkinese type cat imported
into the USA from Rangoon in 1930. She was described as brown with darker points on her
face, legs, feet and tail