NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 
hunted by the natives of Bechuanaland, who utilise 
its skin for making karosses. 
A full-grown specimen of this fox is of about the 
same size as an English fox. Its body and legs 
are slender and graceful. It has a beautiful coat of 
thick and rather long fur, silvery grey in colour, the 
under-fur being pale yellow; legs black, tail bushy 
for its entire length, and black at the tip ; ears very 
large. Average length of body, two feet. 
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