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caused me to lose several good shots as they flushed 

 aud drove away several Pheasants aud a Wild Turkey. 

 The noisy dogs kept runuiug to aud fro in this thiek 

 covert for at least two hours and I thought they were 

 after Rabbits, but finally a Gray Fox came out into a 

 path and a man shot it. When tlie Fox was killed the 

 hounds left and we were not bothered any more. My 

 companion said it was a very commcn habit of this 

 species, when pursued by dogs in thick underbrush, to 

 act as this one did. 



RARE, IF FOUND AT ALL, TN SOMK COUNTIES. 



Gray Foxes aie frequently met with in different, in 

 fact almost all, sections of the State, but tliere arc 

 probably fifteen times as many, if not more, of the Red 

 Foxes in I'ennsylvania. I have never seen a Gray Fox 

 in Chester county where I have spent several years in 

 field work, and the Messrs. Weil, who make a special 

 business of purchasing raw furs in Chester, Lancaster, 

 Montgomery and Delaware counties, say they never 

 have bad but one Gray Fox, and that was killed in 

 Maryland. Fox hunters in Chester, Delaware aud 

 Montgomery counties report that tliey never find any 

 Gray Foxes. 



THEY TAKE TO TREES. 



The (J ray Fox to escape its enemies will sometimes 

 ascend the inclined trunk or large pendent and low 

 limbs O'f trees. Up in the wilds of Clinton county, 

 where this species is of frequent occurrence and a 

 menace to the existence of its ground-dwelling feath- 

 ered neighbors, it seems some of them possess monkey, 

 like ability as tree climbers; at least, such inference 

 can be drawn from the following paragraph published 



