BRANT ann CORSAK FOX. 
In the new-difcovered Fox iflands thefe animals abound: one in 
three or four are found entirely black, and larger than any in Sidiria : 
- the tail alfo is tipt with white. But as they live among the rocks, 
there being no woods in thofe iflands, their hair is almoft as coarfe 
as that of the Woif, and of little value compared to the Sidirian.. 
Brant Fox, Hi/t. Quad. p. 2335. 
OX. With a very fharp and black nofe: fpace round the 
ears ferruginous: forehead, back, fhoulders, fides, and thighs, 
red, cinereous, and black: the afh-color predominates, which gives 
it a hoary look: belly yellowifh: tail black above, cinereous on the 
fides, red beneath. 
About half the fize of the common fox. Defcribed from one Mr. 
Brooks received from Pen/ylvania, under the name of Brandt-fox ; but 
it had not that bright rednefs to merit the name of either Brandt- 
fuchfe, or Brand-raef, given by Gefner and Linneus. 
Corfak Fox, Hi/t, Quad. p. 236. 
VOX. With upright ears: yeliowifh-green irides: throat white: 
color, in fummer, pale tawny; in winter, cinereous: middle of 
the tail cinereous; bafe and tip black ; the whole very full of hair: 
the fur is coarfer and fhorter than that of the common fox. 
I difcovered this fpecies among the drawings of the late Taylor 
White, Efq; who.informed me that it came from North America. 1 
imagine, from Hud/on’s Bay. 
This fpecies is very common in the hilly and temperate parts of 
Tartary, from the Don to the Amur; but never is found in woody 
places: it burrows deep beneath the furface. It is alfo faid to in- 
habit the banks of the rivers Indigi/ky and Anadyr, where the hills 
grow bare. In the reft of Szdiria it is only known beyond lake 
Baikal; and from fkins brought by the Kirghifian and Bucharian. 
traders. In Ruffa it is found in the defarts towards Crimea and Aftra- 
¢an, and alfo on the fouthern end of the Ura//ian mountains. 
Grey 
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