Prairie Red-fox 



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and there stopped to watch him. I followed her track farther 

 and found where she had stopped many other places, and, 

 finally, where she had stood on a high stump and probably 

 watched me while I was at the tree looking at her young. In 

 fact, I believe she had watched me from this stump while I had 



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Fig. 193 — Diagram of fox-tracks (by G. L. Fordyce), showing approximately the tracks left by the mother Fox 

 in moving her brood from the hollow tree to the new den. 



been following her trail, because her tracks showed that she 

 had run with greater leaps from the stump straight away into 

 the open country. 



"The next morning I went to the tree soon after daylight 

 and the young were gone. There was a maze of tracks coming 

 and going to the tree. I started out to follow them, settling 

 down to one which I followed with considerable difficulty, on 

 account of other tracks crossing it, but I finally succeeded in 

 locating the den into which she had carried them. It was an 



