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SUB-GENUS III. VULPES. 



THE FOXES. 



In whatsoever form we arrange the Canidce, oscu- 

 lating species will always be found somewhere at a 

 distance from each other, because either the quarter 

 of the globe inteqioses, or the individuals in the 

 series approximate others at a distance from the 

 direct succession. Thus our Chrysocyon should be 

 ^placed immediately after Lupus; Dusicyon, in the 

 new continent, and Cynalopex in the old, pass into 



