GRAY FOX 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus. 



Although it may be found as far north as Massachusetts and 

 New York, the gray, or Virginian fox, is as the second name implies, 

 the fox of the southern United States. For several reasons this 

 species is more dependent upon the forests than the northern vari- 

 ety and does not take kindly to remaining in the vicinity of cultivated 

 lands. In the first place it prefers to find a home for its young in 

 the hollow of a stump, tree, or log, rather than the burrow which 

 seems more satisfactory to the red fox. Then, while endowed with 

 much natural trickery and slyness, it apparently has not the same 

 capacity for premeditated shrewdness and is more easily outwitted 

 by its human foes. As it lacks the bold fearlessness which charac- 

 terizes its ofttimes too familiar thievish cousin, the wooded tracts 



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