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CRABODAGO AGUARA FOX, 
Cerdocyon Azare. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Canis Azaree, Prince Maximilian of Wied. 
Tas variety, belonging to the plains and woods of 
Brazil and Paraguay south of the equinoctial line, 
but spreading partially to the north of it, is similar 
in general form, resembling an European fox, but 
with the head more like a Thous, the neck less 
implanted between the shoulders, and the brush less 
furnished with long hair, the fur on the body is 
pale yellowish grey, on the back being mixed with 
black ; a black streak on the shins, the rest buff; 
the tip of the lips white ; under jaw dark brownish 
grey, and inferior parts whitish ; the tip of the tail 
black. The length from nose to tail is about twenty- 
three inches, the tail fourteen inches, the ears two 
inches, ~ 
The animals of this species, found more to the 
southward, and represented in the Zoology of the 
Beagle, appear by the figure publised in the second 
number to be nearly black on the ridge of the back 
and tail, excepting towards the extremity, where a 
