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sides of the neck reddish; a black line commencing on the nape of 

 the neck, and extending along the middle of the tail. 



C corsac, Gm. ; BufF. Supp. III. xvi, under the name of Adive. 

 (The Corsac). A pale yellowish grey ; a few blackish waves at the 

 base of the tail; tip of the tail black; jaw white. Common on the 

 vast heaths of central Asia, from the Volga to India. It has the 

 habits of the Fox, and never drinks. I suspect the Ahouhossein of 

 Nubia — Canis pallidus, Ruppel, pi. xi — is the same animal. 



There is also in the prairies of North America, a little Fox, C. 

 velox, Har. and Say; F. Am., 91, which lives in burrows, but which 

 appears to differ from the Corsac by the colours : a blackish tail, &c. 



C. cinereo-argenteus, Schreb. XCII. A. (The Tri-coloured Fox 

 of America). Ash-coloured above ; white beneath; a cinnamon-red 

 band along the flanks. From all the warm and temperate parts of 

 the two Americas. 



C. argentatus. (The Silver or Black Fox)*. Black; tips of the 

 hairs white, except on the ears, shoulders, and tail, where they are 

 of a pure black. The end of the tail is all white. From North 

 America. Its fur is most beautiful, and very costly. 



C. lagopus, L. ; Schreb. XCIII. (The Blue Fox or Isatis). 

 Deep ash-colour; the under surface of the toes hairy f; often white 

 in winter. From the north of both continents, particularly from 

 Norway and Siberia ; much esteemed for its fur. 



C. mesomelasX, '&c\\xeh.X.CY. (The Cape Fox). Fawn-coloured 

 on the flanks ; middle of the nose black, mixed with white, termi- 

 nating in a point behind; the ears red as well as the feet; the two 

 posterior thirds of the tail black, &c. 

 The interior of Africa produces Foxes remarkable for the size of their 

 ears, and the strength of the hairs of their mustachios; they are the 

 Megalotis of lUiger. There are two known, the 



C. megalotis, Lalande; a Cape species, something smaller than 

 our common Fox, higher on its feet ; yellowish grey above, whitish 

 beneath ; the feet, tail, and a dorsal line black. 



C. zerda, Gm., or Fennec of Bruce ; Bufl". Supp. III. xix. Ears 

 still larger; a small species of an almost white fawni colour, which 

 burrows in the sands of Nubia § ; its hair is woolly, and extends un- 

 der the toes. 

 Finally, we may place after the Dogs, as a fourth subgenus, distin- 

 guished by the number of toes, which is four to each foot, the 



Hycena venatica, Bursch. ; H. picta, Temm. ; An. Gen. des Sc. 

 Phys. III. (The Wild Dog of the Cape). It has the dental sys- 



* Gmel. has confounded it with the Black Wolf, under the name of Canis lycaon. 



f Several of the Foxes, and even the common one, have hair under their feet in 

 the north. 



X Gmelin has confounded it with the Adive of BufFon, which is a factitious species, 

 and does not differ from the Jackal. 



§ Bruce's figure, copied by BufiTon, and subsequently by all his compilers, greatly 

 exaggerates the size of the ears. We have at last a good figure and exact descrip- 

 tion of this animal in the Voy. of Ruppel, Zoolog. pi. iii. 



