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THE CARNIVORES 



while those on the back tend to blackness, and those on the face to a grayish- 

 brown instead of a yellowish-gray tint during the former season. 



In the average form the color of the sides of the body is gray, while the longer 

 hairs of the back are black and white, with black patches on the shoulders, the 

 middle of the body and the rump ; the limbs being fulvous externally, and of a pale 

 yellowish tint internally. The under parts of the body and the inner sides of the 

 thighs are whitish. There is also some white on the upper lip, and on the chest, as 

 well as on the inner sides of the ears ; the outer sides of the latter being yellowish, 

 with black tips. The tail, like the back, is mottled with black and white through- 



AZARA'S DOG. 



out the greater part of its length, but the end is black. White specimens have oc- 

 casionally been observed. 



Mr. W. H. Hudson speaks of Azara's dog as being purely fox-like in its 

 habits, and common everywhere in Argentina, where it inhabits the open Pampas. 

 In Paraguay, on the other hand, according to Rengger, it dwells in jungle-clad dis- 

 tricts, from which during the night it roams on the one side into the dense forests, 

 and on the other into the open country. Its main food consists of small Mammals 

 and birds, but it will not refuse lizards ; and it displays a marked partiality for 

 sugar cane, doing great damage by the number of canes it destroys without eating- 



