felis leo

The subject, a female felis leo somaliensis, is too big for that.

The cat, for instance, is Felis catus, the lion Felis leo, the tiger Felis tigris, and so on.

Of the living species there were present in mid-Pleistocene times, the brown bear, the grizzly bear, the wolf, the fox, the stag, the roe, the urus or the wild-ox, the aurochs or European bison, the hippopotamus, the horse, the wild boar, the beaver, the water rat, the lion, sometimes spoken of as the cave-lion and being the same species as the Felis leo of to-day, the lynx, the panther or leopard, the wild cat, the spotted hyena, the otter, the musk sheep, and the marmot.

What is he but ‘Felis leo’? which means the cat lion, as you know, in Latin.

Then you wait through the long, silent watches of the night for Felis Leo to appear.