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all of one species. Those of Senegal for instance, C. anthus, Fr. 
Cuv. Mammif., stand higher, appear to have a sharper muzzle, 
and the tail a little longer. 
Foxrs may be distinguished from the Wolf and Dog by a longer 
and more tufted tail, by a more pointed muzzle, by pupils, which, 
during the day, form a vertical fissure, and by the upper incisors 
being less sloping. They diffuse a fetid odour, dig burrows, and 
attack none but the weaker animals. ‘ This subgenus is more nume- 
rous than the preceding one. 
C. vulpes, L.3 Buff. VII, vi. (The Common Fox.) More or 
less red; tip of the tail white; found from Sweden to Egypt. 
Those of the north have merely a more brilliant fur. There is 
no constant difference to be observed between those of the East- 
ern continent and those ef North America. The C. alopex, 
Schreb. XCI, or the Collier, which has the end of the tail black, 
and is found in the same countries as the common one; the 
Renard croisé, Id. XCI, A, or the Cross Fox, which is only 
distinguished by a streak of black along the spine and across the 
shoulders ; the Fox the French furriers call the Turk, which is 
of a yellowish grey, with the end of the tail white, are, perhaps, 
mere varieties of the common one. The following species how- 
ever are very distinct. [See App. VII of Am. Ed.] 
C. Azare, Pr. Max.; Aguarachai, Azz. (The Brazil Fox.) 
Grey; 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 
Aldive. (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 sus- 
pect the 4bouvhossein 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 bur- 
rows, but which appears to differ from the Corsae by the 
colours: a blackish tail, &c. 
C. cinereo-argenteus, Schreb. XCII, A. (The Tri-coloured 
FoxofAmerica.) Ash-coloured above; white beneath ; acinna- 
mon-red band along the flanks. From all the warm and tem- 
perate parts of the two Americas. 
C. argentatus, (The Silver or Black Fox.)(1) Black; tips 
(1) Gmel. has confounded it with the Black Wolf, under the name of Canis 
lycaon. 
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