48 THE MOUNTAIN-FOX. 



of it told us they had never seen one nearly so large, and 

 many who came on purpose to see it were equally asto- 

 nished at its size. It is now in my possession ; and the 

 woodcut shows most correctly the difference between it 

 and a very fine specimen of the poultry-fox, shot in my 

 brother's preserves. The brush of the larger fox is not 

 longer than that of the smaller, and less white on the 

 tip, but it is uncommonly thick and bushy. He stands 

 very high upon his legs, which are exceedingly muscular ; 

 his head is very broad, and his nose not nearly so peaked 

 as the other's ; his coat is also much more shaggy, and 

 mixed with white hairs an invariable mark of the hill- 

 fox, and which makes his colour lighter and a less 

 decided red than the fox of the Lowlands. 



