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young Seals, etc., and was found on these Islands (St. 

 Paul's), on first arrival of the natives. The Blue Fox 

 was introduced into the Island of Attoo on the west of 

 the Aleutian chain. The Alaska Commercial Company 

 apparently draw their supplies from these districts. 



The Blue Fox is rare in the York Fort district, and 

 on the coast of Labrador. This is the more remarkable 

 as the White Fox is common in these parts. It does not 

 attain a large size in these parts, and the colour also 

 varies considerably — from almost white, light buff- 

 brown, brown, dark purple-brown, to pale^ blue, inter- 

 spersed with white hairs, medium-coloured blue being 

 about the darkest shade. The quality of fur from these 

 parts is fine, and much esteemed by French buyers for 

 this reason. £14 each has in 1888 been paid for such 

 skins. 



Greenland produces some 500 skins. The fur of 

 these is fine, and the size about the same as the 

 Labrador type, and rather larger than the York Fort 

 variety. The colour also resembles the latter ; but, as 

 a rule, they are browner in colour. The Greenland 

 skins are sold in Copenhagen by the Eoyal Greenland 

 Company. The Iceland Blue Fox resembles the above, 

 but is of coarser quality, and deeper in colour ; the 

 Faroe Islands Fox is very similar. 



The tail of the Blue Fox is thickly furred, and in 

 some examples the paws are white. 



In 1891 3,379 Blue Fox skins were imported by the 

 Alaska Commercial Company, and realized from 22s. 6d. 

 to 250s., and 38 skins by the Hudson's Bay Company : 

 these fetched from 19s. to 170s. In 1890 666 Blue Fox 

 skins were sold by the Pioyal Greenland Company in 

 Copenhagen ; in 1891, 1,451 skins. 



The Blue Fox is also found in Wrangel Island. 



