^© Q^U ADRUPEDS. 



The greyhound fox is the largefl, tailed, and boldeft, and will attack 

 Q. grown fheep. The maftifffox is lefs, but more ttrongly built. The 

 cur fox is the lead and moft coaimoni he lurks about hedges and out- 

 houfes, and is the moft pernicious. 



Around the pole, the foxes are of all colours; black, blue, grey, 

 iron-grey, filver-grey, white, white with red legs, white with black 

 heads, white with the tip of the tail black, red with the throat and belly 

 entirely white, and lafdy with a ftripe of black running along the back, 

 and another crofiing it at the fhoulders. The common kind is generally 

 diffufed, being found in Europe, in the temperate climates ofAfiaand' 

 America} but rarely in Africa and under the torrid zone. Blue fox 

 /kins are bought with avidity from their fcarcenefs j but the black fox 

 (kin is moft efteemcd, a fingle fkin often felling for forty or fifty 

 crowns. The hair of thefe is fo difpofed, that it is impofllble to tell 

 which way the grain lies; it we hold the fkin by the head, the hair 

 hangs to the tail ; if we hold it by the rail, it hangs down equally 

 fmooth to the head. 



THE JACKALL 



IS faid to be the fize of a middling dog, refembling the fox in the 

 hinder parts, particularly the tail ; and the wolf in the fore-parts^ 

 efpecially the nofe. ' Its legs are fhorter than thofe of the fox, and its 

 colour a bright yellow or forrel. 



Thp fpecies is difFufed over Afia and Africa, as it were a fubftitute 

 for the wolf, where that is not -common. There feem to be many 

 varieties ; thofe of the warm.eft climates are largefl, and their colour 

 rather a reddifh brown, thai> that beautiful yellow of the fmallerjackall. 



Its cry is a howl, mixed with barking, and a lamentation refembling 

 that of human diftrefs. It is noify and voracious ; goes always in a 

 pack of forty or fifty, fometimes two hundred ; hynt from evening to 

 morning; nothing can efcape them j they deftroy the fmaller animals, 

 yet united, have courage to face the largeft. Yery little afraid of man- 

 kind, they purfue their game to the very doors, and will deftroy chil- 

 dren. They enter the ftieep-folds, yards, and ilables, when they car^ 

 find nothing elfe, deftroy leather harnefs, boots, and ftioes, and run off 

 with what they have not time to fwallow. They fcratcb up with theic 

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