Gray Fox 
work bringing home all the lemmings they are able to kill 
and packing them down against the coming of another winter. 
But these stores are all for themselves and not to be shared 
with their cubs, who, after their first summer of fun and care- 
lessness is ended, must start south in their turn, each hunting 
for himself and avoiding the wolf and the half-breed trappers as 
best he may, until the season comes for him to return and 
settle down as a member of the same remote colony of little 
blue foxes on the shores of the frozen sea. 
The Arctic fox is in many ways the most attractive of its 
race, being wholly free from the rank odour characteristic of the 
other foxes. 
It is, moreover, remarkably neat and cleanly, both regarding 
its fur and in the care of its burrow. Although, as_ before 
stated, it is not so sly as the red fox, especially in the matter 
of traps, it is intelligent and quick to learn, and, living on the 
edge of a settlement, would undoubtedly soon be as difficult to 
outwit as its long-legged cousin of temperate latitudes. 
In its family life it is certainly the equal, if not indeed the 
superior, of many of the native Eskimo tribes inhabiting the 
same regions, at least in matter of forethought, cleverness and 
morality. 
Gray Fox 
Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber) 
Length. 39 inches. 
Description. General colour gray, hair banded black and white; 
darker on the back. Sides of the neck, ears and band 
across the breast rusty red; tips of ears black, feet and 
arts of leg rusty, as well as the under surface of the body. 
nner side of legs, throat and middle of breast white. Tail 
much coarser than that of the red fox without the soft 
under fur. 
Range. Southeastern New York and New_ Jersey to Georgia 
and north in the Mississippi Valley to Tennessee. Replaced 
in Florida and in the West by slightly different varieties. 
The gray fox is a creature of the forest, incapable of 
holding his own for long in a cultivated country; not so much 
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