THE RED FOX 



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Gbat Fox Group: Genus Urocyon 



ENGLISH NAME 



LATIN NAME 



Gray Fox 



Florida Gray Fox . 



Scott's Gray Fox . 



Texas Gray Fox. . 



Coast Gray Fox . . 



Townsend's Gray 

 Fox 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 (Schreber) 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 floridanus (Rhoads) . . . . 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 scottii (Mearns) 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 texensis (Mearns) 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 californicus (Mearns) . 



Urocyon cinereo-argenteus 

 townsendi (Merriam) .... 



LOCALITY 



Southeastern states. 



Florida. 



New Mexico to 

 Southern CaUfor- 

 nia. 



Texas. 



Southern California. 



Northern California. 



The Red Fox.^ — Of the handsome and valuable species 

 of foxes inhabiting North America, our wise old friend, the 

 Red Fox, is the one most widely distributed and the best 

 known. Between the southern AUeghenies and Point Bar- 

 row it appears in coats of many different shades, but every- 

 where it is recognizable by the prevailing yellowish-red color 

 from which it derives its name. It is palest in the desert 

 regions, where shade is scarce, and brightest in the forest 

 regions and Alaska, where the bleaching power of the sun 

 is not so great. The largest and finest skins come from 

 Alaska, and values decrease southward. An Alaskan Red 

 Fox skin (No. 1, large) is worth $12; in Newfoundland and 

 Labrador, $9; Maine, $8; New York, $7; Pennsylvania, $5; 

 Southern states, $4.25. Amateur fox farmers will do well 

 to note these prices when locating their farms. The world's 

 annual output of Red Fox skins is estimated by an expert at 



^ Vul'pes ful'vus. 



