Weight: 8-15 pounds 
Head/Body: 23 inches 
Tail: 14 inches
Subspecies: 1

The mountain cat is similar to a cat in size and build. Its coat is of a very fine silky texture, about two inches in length, and of a pale silver or reddish-gray color fading to white on the undersides. It has faint brown or ochre tabby-like markings on its body and flanks which may darken to almost black on its undersides and legs. Its tail is ringed with dark brown or black, with the tip always the body color. Its ears are gray.

The mountain cat may be found in arid regions of the high Andes, sometimes above the snow line, of Peru and northern Chile and Argentina, where it hunts by day, from the ground, and seeks chinchilla, viscacha, and other small mammals.