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down from the bushes, upon which one's belongings are generally hung 

 by way of guarding against their depredations. If a horse is sogaed out 

 with a cab/esto of hide, the foxes will very often gnaw through the cabresto 

 and set the horse free. This trick has cost the life of more than one 

 Gaucho, who, travelling alone upon the pampa, in some district hundreds 

 of miles away from human habitations, has been left quite helpless with- 

 out his horse, unable to use his bolas with effect on foot, and so has 

 starved to death. 



"In my experience the range of the grey fox seems to cease at the 

 foothills of the Cordillera, where the Magellan wolf [Canis magellaniais) 

 is to be found. Of course, in making this statement I am open to cor- 

 rection. I can merely state that, during the time I spent at Lake Buenos 

 Aires and Lake Argentino, I never saw a pampa fox, although evidences 

 of their presence in the way of tracks were frequent, upon the north shore 

 of the former lake. Yet directly one ascended the range of the hills 

 towards the River Fenix, pampa foxes were to be seen. On the top of 

 Mount Frias I saw a pampa fox in the snow. I never came upon the 

 pampa fox in the forests which grow upon the slopes of the Cordillera. 



"The fearlessness of the grey pampa fox is remarkable, even in districts 

 where it is chased by the Indians and their dogs. The pelts are much 

 used for making capas or fur cloaks. During the early part of January, 

 1 90 1, upon the pampa outside the Cordillera, we continually came upon 

 half-grown pampa foxes in twos and threes. Until they saw the dogs 

 they never took to flight." 



Cerdocyon magellanicus (Gray). 



Canis magellanicus Gray, P. Z. S., 1836 (1837), ^8, nomen nudum. — 

 Burmeister, Desc. phys. Rep. Argent, III, 1879, 146 (in part). — 

 Mivart, Mon. Canidae, 1890, 52, fig. 21 (skull), pi. xiv (animal, 

 type). — Milne-Edwards, Miss. Scient. du Cap Horn, VI, Zool., 

 Mamm., 1890, 5. Orange Bay, Tierra del Fuego. — Prichard, 

 Through Heart of Patagonia, 1902, 244-246 (colored plate of ani- 

 mal), 259, 260 (habits, distribution, measurements). 



Vulpes magellanicHS Gray, Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., I, Nov., 1837, 

 578. Fort Famine, Straits of Magellan. — Waterhouse, Zool. Beagle, 

 Mamm., 1839, 10, pi. v, animal, Chile. (In part only — not the plate, 

 which is based on a Chilian specimen.) — Cassin, U. S. Expl. Exped. 

 (Wilkes), Mamm. and Orn., 1858, 22. Tierra del Fuego. 



