Glass I. FOX. -^s 



in pofiefTion of between two and three thoufand 

 ildns, ail taken in one winter. 



There are three varieties of foxes found in the 

 mountanous parts of thefe iOands, which differ a 

 little in form, but not in color, from each other. 

 Thefe are diftinguiflied in IVales^ by as many differ- 

 ent names. T\\t Milgi ov gre-hound fox^ is the lar- 

 ged, talleil, and boldefl: ; and will attack a grown 

 flieep or wether: the maftiff fox is lefs, but more 

 ftrongly built: the C^r^/, ox cur f ex ^ is the left, and 

 iurks about hedges, out-houfes, i£c. and is the 

 moft pernicious of the three to the feathered tribe. 

 The firft of thefe varieties has a white tag or tip to 

 the tail : the laft a black. The number of thefe 

 animals in general would foon become intolerable, 

 if they were not profcribed, having a certain reward 

 fet on their heads. 



In this place we fhould introduce the wolf, a Wolf. 

 congenerous animal, if we had not fortunately a 

 juft right to omit it in a hiftory of Britiflj quadru- 

 peds. It was, as appears by HoUingfhed*^ very 

 noxious to the flocks in Scotland in 1577 ; nor was 

 it entirely extirpated till about 1680, when the laft 

 wolf fell by the hand of the famous Sir Ewin Ca- 

 meron, We may therefore with confidence affert the 

 non-exiftence of thofe animals, notwidiftanding M 

 de Buffon maintains that the Englifi pretend to the 

 contrary -f*. 



* Difc. Scot. 10, t 'Tern, vii. 



