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THE CORSAC FOX. 



CANIS CORSAC. 



Canis corsac, Linneus, Syst. Nat. 12tli edit. vol. iii., Appendix, p. 223 



(1768) ; Erxleben, Syst. Nat. p. 566 (1777) ; Gmelin, Syst. 



Nat. vol. i. p. 74 (1788) ; Pallas, Reise d. d. Russisch. 



Reichs, vol. i. p. 234 (1771) ; id. Neue Nordische Bcytriige, 



p. 29 (1781) ; id. Zoograpliia, vol. i. p. 41, pi. 4 (1831) ; 



Schreber, Siiugtliiere, Tbeil iii. p. 359, pi. 91 b (1778) ; 



J. A. Wagner, Supplement to Scbreber, Abth. ii. p. 425 ; 



Tilesius, Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caesar. Leopold. - 



Carolinse Nat. Curiosorum, vol. xi. p. 400 (1823) ; 



Fischer, Syn. Mammalium, p. 185 (1829) ; Radde, Ileisea 



im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, vol. i. p. 67, pi. 3 (1862). 

 Canis karagan, Erxleben, Syst. Nat. p. 566 ; Schreber, Siiugth. Theil iii. 



p. 359; Pallas, Reise d. d. Russ. Reichs, vol. i. p. 234. 

 Canis melanotus, Pallas, Zoographia, vol. i. p. 44. 

 Vulpes corsac, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, p. 518; id. Catalogue of 



Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 205. 

 Cynalopex corsac, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol. ix. 



p. 223, pi. 16 (1839). 

 L'Adive (?), Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 113, pi. 16 (1786). 



The Corsac Fox is a species which has been generally known by 

 description for more than a hundred and twenty years, but naturalists 

 in England have had small opportunity of examining it. Our National 

 Collection possesses three specimens, two of which came from Siberia, 

 and the third from Amoorland. 



Whether or not the Corsac Pox is distinct from the kind, or even the 

 two kinds, which will be next described, seems to us to be a matter 

 which cannot be affirmed with certainty. We, however, propose to 

 treat them provisionally as distinct, on account of the very estimable and 



