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of their extreme suspiciousness, which often renders 
the precautions of the hunter unavailing. The traps 
which are set for them are occasionally perfumed with 
assafeetida, castoreum, and similar substances, of the 
scent of which the Foxes are said to be fond. When 
pursued they run for a short distance with great swift- 
ness, but their wind soon fails and they are speedily 
overtaken. 
The specimen in the Society’s Menagerie was pre- 
sented by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the autumn 
of the last year. It has all the characters of the genuine 
American race; and we repeat that it seems to us 
impossible, placing it side by side with the European 
Fox, not to be convinced that the two animals are of 
different species. Its manners appear to us indicative 
of more suspicion, but of a less degree of cunning; but 
it is almost unnecessary to remark that no certain 
deduction can be drawn with regard to the character 
of a species from the observation of a smgle mdividual. 
