VULPES. 245 
S1zE.—Head and body, 20 inches ; tail, 14 inches ; weight, 54 lbs. 
According to Mountstuart Elphinstone the backs of the foxes in 
Hurriana are of the same colour as the common fox, but in one part 
of the desert their legs and belly, up to a certain height, are black, and 
in another white—the one seems to have been wading up to the belly in 
ink, and the other in whitewash. 
This fox lives chiefly on the jerboa-rat (Gerdid/us Indicus) common 
on sandy plains. Jerdon- thinks it more speedy than the common 
Indian fox. 
No. 252. VULPES FERRILATUS. 
The Thibetan Grey Fox. 
Native NamMre.—/ger, Thibetan. 
Hapitat.—Thibet. 
DescriPTion.—Pale fulvous, with grizzled white or iron-grey sides ; 
shorter ears than in the Indian fox. 
We now come to the true foxes, with shorter legs and moderate ears. 
No. 253. VULPES MONTANUS. 
The Fiill Fox (Jerdon’s No. 140). 
NaTivE Names.—Zof, Kashmiri; Zomrz, Hindi, at Simla; Wamu, 
Nepalese. 
Hasirat.—Throughout the Himalayas, 
DEscRIPTION.—Pale fulvous, with a dark brownish or deep chestnut 
streak down the back; sides deeper fulvous; the haunches a steely 
grey, mixed with yellowish hairs; tail grey and very bushy, largely 
tipped with white ; ears deep black on outside ; cheeks and jowl greyish- 
white ; moustaches black ; legs chestnut in front, paling off behind. 
SizE.—Head and body, 30 inches; tail, 19 inches; weight, 14 lbs. 
Not at all unlike an English fox, only more variegated. ‘The fore- 
going description is taken chiefly from a very fine specimen shot in the 
garden of the house in which I stayed at Simla; but it is subject to 
great variation, and is in its chief beauty in its winter dress. Several 
specimens which I have seen are all more or less different in colour. 
I have never seen a handsomer fox; the fur is extremely rich, the 
longer hairs exceeding two inches, and the inner fur is fine and dense. 
It is said to breed in April and May, the female usually having three to 
four cubs, 
No. 254. VULPES PUSILLUS. 
The Punjab Fox (Jerdon’s No. 141). 
HasiTat.—Punjab Salt Range. 
DESCRIPTION.—Similar to the last, but much smaller, being about 
