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Besides the prominent species that have been mentioned 

 in this article, there are a number of other foxes of more 

 or less importance commercially at the present time. 



The Prairie Fox of the central states is smaller than the 

 Kitt Fox, of which species it is a variety although its dense 

 fur resembles that of the Grey Fox. It has a black tipped 

 tail. 



The Brazil Fox is also grey in general color, but the sides 

 of the neck are reddish and it has a black line commencing 

 at the nape of the neck and extending to the middle of the 

 tail. 



The Patagonian Fox is fawn color on the flanks but has 

 red ears and feet, and two-thirds of its tail is black. 



There are two varieties of the Vulpes Leucopus, whose 

 range extends from the Volga to India. The Hill or Stone 

 Fox, also known as the Cossac, Steppe and Afghan Fox, 

 which inhabits the high table lands of Asia, is of medium 

 size and has a long, soft, very light brown fur, that in some 

 cases becomes a darker shade on the back and rump, causing 

 it to look, with its black belly, ears and legs and white 

 tipped tail, something like the American Cross Fox. The 

 East Indian Desert Fox is very small and lighter in color 

 than the Hill Fox, and has white silvery hairs on the back. 



African Foxes are remarkable for the size of their ears ; 

 one species that burrows in the sands of Nubia is an almost 

 white fawn color ; the Cape species are yellowish grey above 

 and whitish beneath, and have black feet and tail and dorsal 

 line. 



The Asiatic Kit Fox, called Ture by the French because 

 it is the same color as the Turkish Fox, is a small animal 

 measuring from eighteen inches to two feet in length. The 

 under fur of the back is light grey relieved by longer white 

 hairs ; the sides are light yellow and the belly is white ; the 

 ears are brownish grey and tipped with black, and the 

 twelve inch -yellow and grey tail is also tipped with black 

 hair ; the whiskers are black. Its burrows are always seen 

 on the open plains. Mr. Say claims that it exceeds even 

 the antelope in swiftness, and is consequently known as 

 the velox species of the genus vulpes. 



