Cats
[…] Hiertro dello Valli evidently means the Angora kind when he says 'There is
in Persia a cat (particularly in the province of Choragan) of the figure and form of our
ordinary ones, but infinitely more beautiful in the lustre and colour of its skin. It is of a grey
blue, without mixture, and as soft and shining as silk. The tail is of great length and covered
with hair six inches long, which the animal throws on its back like a squirrel.'"
Jean Bungartz described the Angora (Felis maniculata domesticus angorensis) in his 1896
book "Die Hauskatze, ihre Rassen und Varietäten" (Housecats, Their Races and Varieties) in "
Illustriertes Katzenbuch" (An Illustrated Book of Cats) as the most beautiful and best known
of the foreign cats and originating from high Asia. He summed up the debate over whether
the longhair meant it was related to Pallas's Manul or was a housecat adapted to a cold,
mountainous climate. He added that there were bluish-grey Angoras in the south Siberians.
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