Red Fox 
circled around to get the wind of me, trusting more to his 
nostrils than to his eyesight. 
He was a large male, gray about the face and cheeks, and per- 
fectly black on his legs and the backs of his ears. His tail was 
a supurb white-tipped brush, well grizzled with black. When | 
spoke to him he sprang into the air and went bounding away to 
the woods, then stopped and looked back at me for a few seconds 
before disappearing among the trees. 
Varieties of the Red Fox 
While the ‘‘cross fox,” ‘‘silver fox,” etc., are merely indi- 
vidual colour varieties, there are several well-marked geographic 
forms of the red fox. 

Skull of Red Fox 
Red ee Vulpes fulvuus (Desmarest). Description and range as 
above. 
Nova Scotia Red Fox. V. fulvus rubricosa Bangs. Larger ‘and 
brighter rusty red. 
Range. Nova Scotia. 
Newfoundland Red Fox. V. deletrix Bangs. Smaller than the 
red fox, with larger hind feet and claws. Color paler and 
less rusty. 
Range. Newfoundland. 
Kit Fox 
Vulpes velox (Say) 
Length. 25 inches. 
Description. Yellowish-gray above, darkest on the back, hairs 
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