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all of one species. Those of Senegal for instance, C. anthiis, Fr. 

 Cuv. Mammif., stand higher, appear to have a sharper muzzle, 

 and the tail a little longer. 

 Foxes may be distinguished from the Wolf and Dog by a longer 

 and more tufted tail, by a more pointed muzzle, by pupils, which, 

 during the day, form a vertical fissure, and by the vipper incisors 

 being less sloping. They diffuse a fetid odour, dig burrows, and 

 attack none but the weaker animals. This subgenus is more nume- 

 rous than the preceding one. 



C.vulpes,h.; Buff. Vll,y'i. (The Common Fox.) More or 

 less red ; tip of the tail white ; found from Sweden to Egypt. 

 Those of the north have merely a more brilliant fur. There is 

 no constant difference to be observed between those of the East- 

 ern continent and those of North America. The C. alopex, 

 Schreb. XCI, or the Collier, which has the end of the tail black, 

 and is found in the same countries as the common one ; the 

 Eenard croise. Id. XCI, A, or the Cross Fox, which is only 

 distinguished by a streak of black along the spine and across the 

 shoulders ; the Fox the French furriers call the Turk, which is 

 of a yellowish grey, with the end of the tail white, are, perhaps, 

 mere varieties of the common one. The following species how- 

 ever are very distinct. [See App. VII of Am. Ed.] 



C. ^zares, Pr. Max.; Aguarachai, Azz. (The Brazil Fox.) 

 Grey ; sides of the neck reddish ; a black line commencing on 

 the nape of the neck, and extending along the middle of the tail. 

 C. corsaCf Gm. ; Buff. Supp. Ill, xvi, under the name of 

 Sdive. (The Corsac.) A pale yellowish grey ; a few blackish 

 waves at the base of the tail ; tip of the tail black ; jaw white. 

 Common on the vast heaths of central Asia, from the Volga to 

 India. It has the habits of the Fox, and never drinks. I sus- 

 pect the ./36ow/iossem of Nubia Canis pallidus, Ruppel, pi. xi is 

 the same animal. 



There is also in the prairies of North America, a little Fox, 

 C. velox, Har. and Say; F. Am., 91, which lives in bur- 

 rows, but which appears to differ from the Corsac by the 

 colours: a blackish tail, &c. 



C. cinereo-argenteus, Schreb. XCII, A. (The Tri-coloured 

 Fox of America.) Ash-coloured above; white beneath ; a cinna- 

 mon-red band along the flanks. From all the warm and tem- 

 perate parts of the two Americas. 



C. argentatus. (The Silver or Black Fox.)(l) Black j tips 



(1) Gmel. has confounded it with the Black Wolf, under the name of Canis 

 lycaon. 



