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sides of the neck reddish; a black line commencing on the nape of 
the neck, and extending along the middle of the tail. 
C. corsac, Gm.; Buff. Supp. III. xvi, under the name of Adive. 
(The Corsac). A pale yellowish grey; a few blackish waves at the 
base of the tail; tip of the tail black; jaw white. Common on the 
vast heaths of central Asia, from the Volga to India. It has the 
habits of the Fox, and never drinks. I suspect the Abouhossein of 
Nubia—Canis pallidus, Ruppel, pl. xi—is the same animal. 
There is also in the prairies of North America, a little Fox, C. 
velox, Har. and Say; F. Am., 91, which lives in burrows, but which 
appears to differ from the Corsac by the colours: a blackish tail, &c. 
C. cinereo-argenteus, Schreb. XCII. A. (The Tri-coloured Fox 
of America). Ash-coloured above; white beneath; a cinnamon-red 
band along the flanks. From all the warm and temperate parts of 
the two Americas. 
C. argentatus. (The Silver or Black Fox)*. Black; tips of the 
hairs white, except on the ears, shoulders, and_ tail, es they are 
of a pure black. The end of the tail is all white. From North 
America. Its fur is most beautiful, and very costly. 
C. lagopus, L.; Schreb. XCIII. (The Blue Fox or Isatis). 
Deep ash-colour; the under surface of the toes hairy}; often white 
in winter. From the north of both continents, particularly from 
Norway and Siberia; much esteemed for its fur. 
C. mesomelast, Schreb. XCV. (The Cape Fox). Fawn-coloured 
on the flanks; middle of the nose black, mixed with white, termi- 
nating in a point behind; the ears red as well as the feet; the two 
posterior thirds of the tail black, &c. 
The interior of Africa produces Foxes remarkable for the size of their 
ears, and the strength of the hairs of their mustachios; they are the 
Meeatoris of Iliger. There are two known, the 
C. megalotis, Lalande; a Cape species, something smaller than 
our common Fox, higher on its feet; yellowish grey above, whitish 
beneath; the feet, tail, and a dorsal line black. 
C. zerda, Gm., or Fennec of Bruce; Buff. Supp. III. xix. Ears 
still larger; a small species of an almost white fawn colour, which 
burrows in the sands of Nubia§; its hair is woguy, and extends un- 
der the toes. 
Finally, we may place after the Dogs, as a fourth subgenus, distin- 
guished by the number of toes, which is four to each foot, the 
Hyena venatica, Bursch.; H. picta, 'Temm.; An. Gen. des Sc. 
Phys. III. (The Wild Dog of the Cape). It has the dental sys- 
* Gmel. has confounded it with the Black Wolf, under the name of Canis lycaon. 
+ Several of the Foxes, and even the common one, have hair under their feet in 
the north. 
+ Gmelin has confounded it with the ddive of Buffon, which is a factitious species, 
and does not differ from the Jackal. 
§ Bruce’s figure, copied by Buffon, and subsequently by all his compilers, greatly 
exaggerates the size of the ears. We have at last a good figure and exact descrip- 
tion of this animal in the Voy. of Ruppel, Zoolog. pl. iii. 
