S FOXES AT HOME. 



■sees in the same district red, grey, sandy, 

 sooty, squirrel, and mouse coloured foxes ; 

 some with white tags, some with black, and 

 others with no tag at all at the end of their 

 brushes. I remember even a pure white fox 

 being killed at Wentworth (the Countess de 

 Morella's, near Virginia Water), by the Garth 

 Hounds, some years ago, but this of course w^as 

 a most rare occurrence, though, strange to say, 

 .another white fox was killed elsewhere that 

 -very same season. Cubs of the same litter are 

 .almost invariably of the same shade of colour, 

 usually that of the vixen (or female fox), and 

 the " dog" cubs, as a rule, have the large white 

 tags at the end of their brushes. Vixens some- 

 times have them also, but it is the exception ; 

 they usually have no tag at .all, or merely a few 

 white straggling hairs, and of course many dog 

 foxes have none either. 



It is surprising how people differ in their 

 ideas of the colour of a fox. How often has 

 one heard the same fox viewed over a ride, or 

 in front of hounds, described by different 

 observers as being a dark fox, a light fox, a 

 red fox, a sandy fox, with a large tag, with a 

 small tag, and so on — really quite bewildering ; so 



