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nose : but the inanimate stone or log appeared not more senseless at that 

 moment. Finding all attempts to get away unavailing, Eenard submitted 

 to his destiny with a very good graee, and the next morning was as well as 

 ever, bating a slight wound in the shouliler and a dirtv skin. 



Some country people in Germany onco caught a pike, but in conveying 

 it home during the night it escaped. As it was a large fish, they returned 

 with torches to secure their prize, and after some time foiuid it on the grass, 

 having fast hold of a fox by the nose. The animal caught in this no\el trap 

 made every effort to escape, without success ; and it was not until the pike 

 was killed that it was possible to separate them. It seems that after the 

 jiike was dropped l)y the fisherman the fox came across it, and in paying 

 his addresses to it was received in the manner we have dcscrilied. 



There are several si)ecies in North America, the best known and most 

 widely dirtnsed of which is the IJed Fox ( l"«//)''s' /«/(•«.•>). This s[}ecies 

 is as mischievous and more cautious than the foxes of the Old World. It 

 is hunted for its fnr, which is very valuable. Then follow the Cross Fox, 

 the Silver Fox, tlie Little Fox, the Tricolorcd Fox, and the Gray Fox, 

 which last completes the American series. 



The Arctic Fox — see Plate IX.- — ( C. Inf/opiisi) is of a deep ash color, 

 although white in winter. It iidiabits the frozen regions. M. Cuviei' 

 describes two African species, remarlcable for the size of tlic ears, the O. 

 megcdods, and the C. zerdn, which has cars still larger. It is a very small 

 species, of a whitish yellow, burrows in the sands of Nubia, and climbs 

 trees with ease. 



Lycaox. — The Wild Dog of the Cape {ITija'ua venn(ic(i) is distin- 

 guished by its tall, gaunt form, fur marbled with white, fulvous, gray, and 

 blackish. In size it equals the wolf; lias large cars tipped with black. It 

 lives in packs, which often approach Cape Town, and devastate the cn\i- 

 rons. 



Hy.exa. — The byamas have three false molars above and four below, all 

 conical, and singularly large ; their upper carnivorous tooth has a small 

 tubercle within and in front ; but the lower one has none, presenting only 

 two stout, trenchant points. This peculiar dentition enables them to crush 

 the bones of the largest prey. They are nocturnal animals, and inhabit 

 caverns, exceedingly voracious, subsisting chiefly on dead bodies, which 

 they will even drag from the graves. They arc animals of enormous 

 strength, and ferocious to the last degree. The statement that they "arc 

 easily tamed,"' "susceptible of strong .attachment," and "are employed in 

 the character of watch-dogs, both in Asia and Africa," inaij be true, Ijut is 

 scarcely credible. 



Three species are known — the Striped IIya?na (//. vulgaris, C. hjccna, 

 xo. III. 14 



