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principal food is rats, land crabs, grasshoppers, beetles, &c. On one 

 occasion a half- devoured mango was found in the stomach. It always 

 burrows in open plains, runs with great speed, doubling like a hare ; 

 but, instead of stretching out at first like that animal, and trusting to 

 its turns as a last resource, the fox turns more at first, and if it can 

 fatigue the dogs, it then goes straight away." (Madras Journ. of Lit. 

 and Sc. X. p. 102.) 



Capt. Hutton states, it " is common in Cutchee, where, previous to 

 the advance of our army from Shikarpore, I have coursed them, with my 

 friend Major Leech, late Political Agent at Candahar." (J. A. S. B. 

 XIV. p. 345.) 



Mr. J. E. Gray (Catal. of Hodgson's Collection) enumerates the 

 Canis corsac of Linnaeus and the Vulpes ferrilatus of Hodgson as syno- 

 nyms of the Vulpes bengalensis. 



108. VULPES FLA VESCENS, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. XI. 

 p. 118. 



Vulpes flavescens, Gray, Catal. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 60. 



Catal. Hodgs. Collect, p. 11. Capt. Thomas Hutton, 



Rough Notes of the Zoology of Candahar, $c., Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng. XIV. p. 344. 



Vulpes montanus, Hodgson (not Pearson), Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. XI. p. 278. 

 ROBUR, in Candahar, Hutton. 



HAB. Afghanistan and Candahar, Hutton. Persia, Gray. 

 Tibet and Lassa, Hodgson (J. A. S. B. XL p. 278), 

 where it is common. 



A. Griffiths's Collection from Afghanistan. 



Mr. J. E. Gray has given the first description of this species in the 

 " Journal and Magazine of Nat. Hist." XI. p. 118. " Tail, yellowish; 

 back, rather darker (inclining to brown) ; face, and outer side of fore 

 legs, and base of the tail, pale fulvous ; spot on the side of the face, 

 just before the eyes, the chin (breast), the front of the fore legs, a 

 round spot on the upper part of the hind foot, and the tips of the hairs 

 of the tail, blackish ; the ears, externally, black ; end of tail, white." 



Captain Thomas Hutton informs us, that " the species is numerous 

 in the valleys around Candahar, hiding in burrows and holes in the 

 rocks. The skins are soft, and made into reemchahs and poshteens. 

 One specimen measured from nose to insertion of the tail, two feet ; 

 tail, seventeen inches; height at the shoulder, fourteen inches. Another 



