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of the hairs white, except on the ears, shoulders, and tail, where 
they are ofa pure black. Theend 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;(1) often 
white in winter. From the north of both continents, particu- 
larly from Norway and Siberia; much esteemed for its fur. 
C. mesomelas,(2) Schreb. XCV. (The Cape Fox.) Fawn- 
coloured on the flanks; middle of the nose black, mixed with 
white, terminating 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 Mrcatoris of illiger. 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 co- 
lour, which burrows in the sands of Nubia3(3) its hair is 
woolly, and extends under the toes. 
Finally, we may place after the Dogs, as a fourth subgenus, dis- 
tinguished by the number of toes, which is four to each foot, the 
_ Hyzna venatica, Bursch.; H. picta, Temm., An. Gen. des Sc. 
Phys. III. (The Wild Dog of the Cape.) It has the dental 
_ system of the Dog and not that of the Hyena; a long and thin 
form; the fur mottled, with white and fawn colour, grey and 
black ; size of the Wolf, large ears with black tips, &c. It is 
gregarious, and frequently approaches Cape Town, devastating 
its environs. 
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The Civets have three false molars above and four below, the an- 
terior of which sometimes fall out ; two tolerably large tuberculous 
teeth above, one only below, and two tubercles projecting forwards 
on the inner side of the inferior carnivorus, the rest of that tooth 
Sayed 
(1) Several of the Foxes, and even the g@emmon one, have hair under their 
feet in the north. in 
(2) Gmelin has confounded it with the adit of Buffon, w hiehi isa factitione spe- 
cies, and does not differ from the Jackal. 
(3) Bruce’s figure, copied by Buffon, and michoga fei by all his ‘compi- 
lers, greatly exaggerates the size of the ears. We have at last a good figure 
and exact description of this animal in the Voy. of Ruppel, aenBa: pl. lil. 
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