Gray Fox 



work bringing home all the lemmings they are able to kill 

 and packing them down against the coming of another winter. 



But these stores are all for themselves and not to be shared 

 with their cubs, who, after their first summer of fun and care- 

 lessness is ended, must start south in their turn, each hunting 

 for himself and avoiding the wolf and the half-breed trappers as 

 best he may, until the season comes for him to return and 

 settle down as a member of the same remote colony of little 

 blue foxes on the shores of the frozen sea. 



The Arctic fox is in many ways the most attractive of its 

 race, being wholly free from the rank odour characteristic of the 

 other foxes. 



It is, moreover, remarkably neat and cleanly, both regarding 

 its fur and in the care of its burrow. Although, as before 

 stated, it is not so sly as the red fox, especially in the matter 

 of traps, it is intelligent and quick to learn, and, living on the 

 edge of a settlement, would undoubtedly soon be as difficult to 

 outwit as its long-legged cousin of temperate latitudes. 



In its family life it is certainly the equal, if not indeed the 

 superior, of many of the native Eskimo tribes inhabiting the 

 same regions, at least in matter of forethought, cleverness and 

 morality. 



Gray Fox 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber) 



Length. 39 inches. 



Description. General colour gray, hair banded black and white; 

 darker on the back. Sides of the neck, ears and band 

 across the breast L rusty red; tips of ears black, feet and 

 parts of leg rusty, as well as the under surface of the body. 

 Inner side of legs, throat and middle of breast white. Tail 

 much coarser than that of the red fox without the soft 

 under fur. 



Range. Southeastern New York and New Jersey to Georgia 

 and north in the Mississippi Valley to Tennessee. Replaced 

 in Florida and in the West by slightly different varieties. 



The gray fox is a creature of the forest, incapable of 

 holding his own for long in a cultivated country; not so much 



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