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THE CORSAC FOX. 



CANIS COESAC. 



Canis corsac, Linneus, Syst. Nat. 12th edit. vol. iii., Appendix, p. 223 

 (1768) ; Erxleben, Syst. Nat. p. 566 (1777) ; Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat. vol. i. p. 74 (1788) ; Pallas, Reise d. d. Russisch. 

 Reichs, vol. i. p. 234 (1771) ; id. Neue Nordische Beytrage, 

 p. 29 (1781) ; id. Zoographia, vol. i. p. 41, pi. 4 (1831) ; 

 Schreber, Saugthiere, Theil iii. p. 359, pi. 91 B (1778) 

 J. A. Wagner, Supplement to Schreber, Abth. ii. p. 425 ; 

 Tilesius, Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caesar. Leopold. - 

 Carolinee Nat. Curiosorum, vol. xi. p. 400 (1823) ; 

 Fischer, Syn. Mammalium, p. 185 (1829) ; Radde, Reisen 

 im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, vol. i. p. 67, pi. 3 (1862). 



Canis karagan, Erxleben, Syst. Nat. p. 566 ; Schreber, Saugth. Theil iii. 

 p. 359; Pallas, Reise d. d. Russ. Reichs, vol. i. p. 234. 



Canis melanotus, Pallas, Zoographia, vol. i. p. 44. 



Vulpes corsac, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 518; id. Catalogue of 

 Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 205. 



Cynalopex corsac, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol. ix. 

 p. 223, pi. 16 (1839). 



L'Adive (?), Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 113, pi. 16 (1786). 



THE Corsac Eox is a species which has been generally known by 

 description for more than a hundred and twenty years, but naturalists 

 in England have had small opportunity of examining it. Our National 

 Collection possesses three specimens, two of which came from Siberia, 

 and the third from. Amoorland. 



Whether or not the Corsac Fox is distinct from the kind, or even the 

 two kinds, which will be next described, seems to us to be a matter 

 which cannot be affirmed with certainty. We, however, propose to 

 treat them provisionally as distinct, on account of the very estimable and 



