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among farmers, due to occasional raids on the poultry yard, 

 is largely unwarranted. They kill enormous numbers of 

 mice and other small rodents each year, and thus well repay 

 the loss of a chicken now and then. Red foxes apparently 

 pair for life and occupy dens dug by themselves in a se- 

 cluded knoll or among rocks. These dens, which are some- 

 times occupied for years in succession, always have two 

 or more entrances opening in opposite directions, so that an 

 enemy entering on one side may be readily eluded. The 

 young, numbering up to eight or nine, are tenderly cared 

 for by both parents. (Nelson.) 



The prices at present paid by the raw fur dealers of 

 St. Louis for fox are as follows: Black fox, $800.00 each 

 for extra large and fine pelts; $500.00 each for large; 

 $350.00 each for niedium; $200.00 each for small, and as 

 "low as $10.00 for damaged or inferior skins. Silver fox, 

 $550.00 each for extra large and fine; $400.00 for large; 

 $275.00 for medium ; $175.00 for small, and as low as $7.50 

 for damaged and inferior skins. Cross fox (dark), $150.00 

 for extra large and fine; $110.00 for large; $70.00 each for 

 medium; $40.00 each for small, and as low as $3.00 each 

 for damaged or worn skins. The pale cross fox pelts range 

 in price from $75.00 each down to $1.50. 



SCOTT'S GRAY FOX 



UROCYON CINEREO-AHGENTEUS SCOTTI (Mearns) 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus scotti Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1891, p. 236. 



Description — Color above grizzled gray, many of the 

 hairs black-tipped, especially along the middle of the back ; 

 upper half of back of ears gray, lower fulvous ; chin and side 

 of upper jaw black, except white spot at tip of latter; 

 throat and belly white, bordered by fulvous and an indefi- 

 nite patch or band of same ; front of forelegs gray, back ful- 

 vous; tail above gray with prominent black stripe, below 

 fulvous. Length 39.4 inches; tail, vert., 16.2 inches; hind 

 foot, 5.5 inches. (Warren.) 



Distribution — A few specimens of the gray fox have 

 been taken in Garfield County, Utah; and B. E. Mattsson 

 reports that several have been trapped along the summit 

 of the Manti forest. J. W. Humphrey says that the trap- 

 pers of the Biological Survey have frequently trapped them 



