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CARNIVORA. 



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CAN ID J!. 



Genus, Vulpes. 



Generic Clmracter. — Grinding teeth §:f ; tongue smooth; claws not 

 retractile ; pupil, when contracted, elliptical ; tail bushy. 



COMMON FOX. 



Scottice, TOD. 



Vulpes vulgaris. (Briss.) 



Specific Character. — Keddish-hrowu above, white beneath ; behind the 

 ears black ; the tip of the tail white. 



Cards vulpes, Likk. Syst. Nat. edit. XII. I. p. 59. Mdlleb, Zool. 



Dan. Prod. p. 2. Desmak. Mammal, p. 201, sp. 304. 



Fk. Cdvieb, Diet, des So. Nat. VIII. p. 561. jEsrNs, 



Brit. Vert. p. 14. Blas. Wirbelth. Deutsch. I. 191. 

 Canis melanogaster, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. faso. I. f. 1. 

 Vulpes vulgaris, Brissok, Reg. Anim. p. 239, 5. Flem. Brit. An. p. 13. 

 Le Senard, Bupfon, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 67, t. iv. 



Fox, Pennant, Brit. Zool. I. p. 71. Shaw, Gen. Zool. I. 



p. 314. 



The Fox has been celebrated from the earliest anti- 



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