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FULVOUS-NECKED FOX. 



Canis cinereo-argenteus. C. cauda recta, corpore tinerco, collo 



later jbusfuho. Lin. Syst, Nat. Gmel. p. 74. 

 Ash-grey, with strait tail, and the sides of the neck fulvous. 

 Der Grisfuchs. Schreb. saeugth. p. 360. .92. 



THIS Fox, according to Mr. Schreber, inhabits 

 North America, and the skins are often sent over 

 to Europe. The crown of the head,, neck, and 

 back, are grey, mixed with black and white : the 

 finer hairs being white-grey, the coarser varied 

 with black and white like a porcupine's quill : the 

 ears are externally yellow-brown, towards the 

 tips mingled with black : about the ears and on 

 the sides of the neck there is a fox-yellow patch : 

 the throat, breast, and belly, are white : the legs 

 externally yellow-brown : on the fore legs runs, 

 from above inwards, a very small black and white 

 mixed stripe, which terminates below in a broader 

 black one : on the hinder legs a white stripe rims 

 inwards, and underneath joins with a blackish 

 one : the tail is brown, mixed with a little yellow- 

 ish. In size this species is inferior to the common 

 Fox. It is described by Schreber, who seems in 

 some doubt whether it may not be a variety of the 

 Canis Virginianus (Grey Fox of Catesby). 



