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it ranges from Georgia northward, and westward to the Rocki 

 It measures about a meter and a quarter from tip to tip, but the 

 tail is rather more than a third of the total length. It resembles 

 much the European fox, / 'ulpcs vulpcs. The gray fox has a 

 range throughout the United Stales, but is becoming scarce and 

 giving way to the red fox. One of the smallest and prettiest 

 of the foxes is the Arctic fox, which lives in the Arctic regions oi 

 both continents ; the fur is soft and silky, a bluish or brownish 

 gray in summer and pure white in winter. 



There are several varieties of the wolf, Cams lupus, which is 

 found in Europe, Asia, and America. They are the largest and 



Fig. 387. Cams dingo, the dingo dog of Australia. (From Brehm's Thierleben.) 



fiercest of the doglike types and hunt in packs ; the prevailing 

 color is gray, but there is great variation, and some are black, 

 others reddish, others a yellowish white. The American wolf 

 is generally smaller than the European. In South America are 

 found the fox wolves, which are wolflike in general appear- 

 ance, but have bushy tails like a fox. The coyote is smaller 

 than the wolf and more timid, and corresponds in America to 

 the jackal of Asia and Africa. The dingo dog, Cants dingo (Fig. 

 3S7), is believed to be the only native representative of the Car- 

 nivora in Australia. The domestic dog, Cants familiaris, has 

 probably descended from several wild species and has often inter- 



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