98 THE FOX. 



but I have yet to meet the person who has seen one. 

 I should go well to the north, into the British Pos- 

 session, if I was bent on obtaining a specimen. 



One more item from the books. From the fact 

 that in the bone caves in this country skulls of the 

 gray fox are found, but none of the red, it is inferred 

 by some naturalists that the red fox is a descendant 

 from the European species, which it resembles in 

 form but surpasses in beauty, and its appearance on 

 this continent comparatively of recent date. 



