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C. melanotus, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. i. 44. 

 Karagan, Schreb. Siiugeth. 359. 

 Karagan Fox, Shaw. 

 Hab. Ural and Tartary. 



15. VuLPES coRSAC. CoTsac. B.M. 



Canis corsac, Linn. S. N. i. 223; Tiles. Nov, Acta Acad. Nat. 

 Cur. xi. 400, t. 49 ; Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. i. 41, t. 4 ; Blainv. 

 Osteogr. t. 5 (skull). 



Vulpes corsac, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 62. 



Ilsatis or Adive, Buffon, H. N. Suppl. iii. t. 17. 



Corsac Fox, Penn. 



Corsac, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. 155. 



Hab. Tartary, in deserts ; Siberia. 



***** Large. American. 



16. Vulpes pennsylvanica. B.M. 



Hair long, silky and soft ; tail very full, composed of an under-fur 

 with long hair distributed uniformly among it. Tail with a white 

 tip ; feet and ears black. Ears with both sides covered with hair. 



Canis /ulvus. Rich. Fauna B.-Amer. 93, 1829; Aud, & Bachm. N. 

 A. Quadr. ii. 263, 414, t. 87, 116, iii. 70; Desm. Mamm. 203. 



C. argentatus, Shaw, Zool. i. 328. 



C. vuljyes, var. h. pennsyha^iicus, Bodd. Elench. i. 96, 1784. 



C. deeussatus, Geoff. Mus. Par. ; Desm. Mamm. 203. 



C. cruciger, Schreb. Siiugeth. t. 91 a. 



Renard argente, Charlerois, N. France, i. 196 ; Cuv. R. A. i. 155 ; 

 Geoff. Mamm. Lithogr. 



Renard de Virginie, Palisot de Beauvois, Bull. Soc. Philom. 



Pennsylvanian Brant Fox, Penn. 



Vulpes fulvus, S. Baird, N. A. Mam. 123 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones 

 of Mamm. 85. 



Canis vulpes nigra americana, Blainv. Osteogr. t. 2 (skeleton). 



Hab. North America. 



Var. 1 . fulva. " Reddish yellow ; back behind grizzly ; throat 

 greenish ; a narrow line on the belly white ; ears behind, and tips of 

 caudal hairs, except terminal brush, black." Skulls 173 a, b, c, d. 



Var. 2. decussata. " Muzzle and iinderparts, with the legs, 

 black ; tail blacker than in var. 1 ; a dark band between the shoulders, 

 crossed by another over the shoulders." 



Ca7iis decussata, Desm. B.M. 



C. fulvus deeussatus. Rich., Baird. 



Vulpes fulvus deeussatus, Aud. & Bach. 



Cross Fox. 



Var. 3. argentata. " Entirely black, except on the posterior 

 part of the back, where the hairs are annulated with grey ; tail-tip 

 white ; " foot-pads often covered with hair. 



