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ITY 



X^UFORN^^ 



THE COMMON FOX 



Vulpes vulgaris. BRISS. 

 PLATE XVI. 



Yellowish-red above, white beneath ; ears black behind ; 

 tail dusky towards the end, its tip usually white ; the feel 

 black. 



Canis Vulpes. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 59 ; Desmar. Mammal. 201 ; 

 Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 14 Vulpes vulgaris, Bell, Brit. 

 Quadr. 252. 



THE Fox, of which several remarkable varieties 

 occur in this country, is the only animal belonging 

 to the Canine family that has not been extermi- 

 nated. It is generally distributed, and while in the 

 cultivated districts it is so rare as to require protec- 

 tion in order to furnish subjects for the chase, in 

 some of the wilder tracts, especially in Scotland, it 

 is even yet so numerous as to be productive of 

 serious inconvenience, the Foxes of these wild 

 glens being much larger and strongei than those of 

 the south. 



