60 ANIMALS OF THE 



in the fox ; and it usually brings forth at the end 

 of May, ot the beginning of June. 



Such are the particulars in which this animal 

 differs from those of the dog kind, and in which 

 it resembles them ; but its most striking peculia- 

 rity remains still to be mentioned, namely, its 

 changing its colour, and being seen at one time 

 brown, and at another perfectly white. As was 

 already said, some are naturally blue, and their 

 colour never changes; but such as are to be 

 white, are, when brought forth, of a yellow hue, 

 which, in the beginning of September, is changed 

 to white, all except along the top of the back, 

 along which runs a stripe of brown, and another 

 crossing it down the shoulders, at which time the 

 animal is called the crossed fox: however, this 

 brown cross totally disappears before winter, and 

 then the creature is all over white, and its fur is 

 two inches long; this, about the beginning of 

 May, again begins to fall, and the moulting is 

 completed about the middle of July, when the 

 isatis becomes brown once more. The fur of 

 this animal is of no value, unless it be killed in 

 winter. 



THE HYAENA. 



THE Hyaena is the last animal I shall mention 

 among those of the dog kind, which it in many 

 respects resembles, although too strongly marked 

 to be strictly reduced to any type. The hyaena 



