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it was not familiar. Its graceful form, the facility of its 

 motions, and particularly the soft and brilliant colours of 

 its fur, would have constituted it a very agreeable animal, 

 had it not been for the unpleasant odour which it emitted, 

 and which, unquestionably, would have become much 

 stronger with advancing years. The head, across the lower 

 part of the osfrontis, round the eyes, and thence to the in- 

 ternal edge of the ears, was of a reddish-gray. The rest of 

 the muzzle was white and black. A little white on the upper 

 lip, then a large black spot, and then white under the lower 

 jaw. The sides and under part of the neck were of a bril- 

 liant fawn. The upper part of the neck, back, shoulders, 

 crupper, thigh, and part of the leg, were of a beautiful 

 silvery-gray. 



The fur was composed of woolly hairs, in great quan- 

 tity, generally of a pale-gray, but with a red tint on the 

 extremities, and of silken hairs, short on the muzzle and 

 paws, long elsewhere, but scanty in number. Such was 

 the distribution of its colours. Its organization was, of 

 course, that of Dogs in general, with the exception of the 

 elongated pupil which it possessed in common with other 

 Foxes. Its length of body, from the muzzle to the root of 

 the tail, was about a foot and a half. The tail itself one 

 foot, and the mean height about eleven inches. 



Our knowledge of the tri-coloured Fox is, as we have 

 observed, due to Schreber. Under his figure, he gives it 

 the name of Cards Cinereo-argenteus, and in the text he 

 calls it Canis-Griseus. D'Azzara, also, it would appear, 

 speaks of this species of the Fox, in his account of the ani- 

 mals of Paraguay, under the appellation of Agouarachy. 

 We should be cautious, however, in the admission of this 

 identity, both as his description differs, in some points, 

 from the animal we are treating of, and as the country 

 in which this specimen was found, is so remote from the 

 habitat of the Fox, which we have been describing. 



