CANID/E. 



CARNIVORA. 



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Genus, Vu/pes. 



Generic Chararter. — Grinding teeth f:f ; tongue smootli ; claws not 

 retractile ; puj)il, when coutraeted, elliptical ; tail bushy. 



COMMON FOX. 



Scoftice, TOD. 



Vulpes vulgaris. (Briss.) 



Specific Character. — lleddish -brown above, white beneath ; behind the 

 ears black ; the tip of the tail white. 



Canis vulpes, Likn. Syst. Nat. edit. XII. I. p. 59. Mullkk, Zool. 



Dan. Prod. p. 2. Desmar. Mammal, p. 201, sp. 304. 

 Fr. Cuvikr, Diet, des Sc. Nat. VIII. p. 5G1. Jenyns, 

 Brit. Vert. p. 14. Blas. Wirbelth. Deutsch. I. 191. 



Cards melanor/aster, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. fasc. I. f. 1. 



Vulpes vulgaris, Brisson, Reg. Anim. p. 239, 5. Fle.m. Brit. An. p. 13. 



Le Rcnard, Buffon, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 57, t. iv. 



Fox, Pennant, Brit. Zool. I. ]>. 71. SiiAw, Gen. Zool. I. 



p. 314. 



The Fox has been celebrated from the earliest anti- 



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