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CAENIVOEA 



summer when it sometimes wears away sufficiently to expose 

 balls of toes, and parts of pads. 



Colour. — Summer pelage : ground colour of back, shoulders, 

 and outer side of legs drab, darkening to about prout-brown or 



FIG. 63. 

 Alopex lagopus. X $. 



dark bister on feet, head, chin, interramial region and outer 

 surface of ears, the face thickly sprinkled with whitish hairs, 

 especially on cheeks and between eyes, the interramial region 

 tinged with slaty grey ; each of the longer hairs of back with 



