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however, are larger and blacker than the others, 

 and afford a richer and more valuable fur than 

 that of almost any other quadrupeds. In Ame- 

 rica this animal is principally found in Canada. 

 In Kamtschatka it is in its greatest perfection; 

 but the creature is of so subtle and wild a nature 

 as to be very rarely obtainable. A single skin 

 has been valued at 400 rubles. The American 

 black Foxes are often of a mixed colour, being 

 dashed with a cinereous cast on the face, sides, 

 &c. 



BRANT FOX. 



Canis Alopex. C. cauda recta; apice nigro. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Gmel.p. 74. 

 With strait tail, black at the tip. 



THIS is less than the common Fox, and has a 

 thicker and dusker fur, though sometimes, on. 

 the contrary, it is much brighter and redder than 

 that species, as mentioned by Linnasus in his 

 Fauna Suecica : the tail is tipped with black. A 

 Pennsylvanian Brant Fox, described by Mr. Pen- 

 nant, was scarcely half the size of the common 

 Fox. It had the nose black, much sharper than 

 in that animal; the space round the eyes ferru- 

 ginous; the forehead and all the upper parts of 

 the body black mixed with red, ash-colour, and 

 black: the ash-colour predominated, which gave 

 it a hoary look: the belly yellowish ; the tail black 

 above, red beneath, and ash-coloured on the sides. 



