MAMMALIA. FERiE. Dog. 141 



Is common at the Cape of Good Hope. — This fpecles has very much the appearance of a Fox, and 

 is about twenty-feven inches long from nofe to rump ; the tail being a foot long: The ears are erect, 

 of a yellowifh brown colour, mixed with a few black hairs ; the head is yellowifh brown, mixed with 

 black and white, and growing darker towards the back part ; the fides are pale brown, varied with 

 dulky hairs ; the upper part of the body, and back of the legs, are yellowilh brown ; the throat, 

 breaft, and belly, are white; the tail is buihy, and yellowilh brown, with a longitudinal black ftripe 

 on its upper part, having two black rings towards the end, and is tipt with white ; on the neck, 

 fhoulders, and back, is a large black patch, broad at the lhoulders, and growing narrower towards 

 the tail ; when the hairs are lmooth, this patch feems marked with white bars on the neck, and with 

 concentric curved lines on the ihoulders ; but, when the hairs are ruffled, thefe regular marks change 

 to a general hoarinefs. 



.46 11. Barbary Jackal. — Can is Adive. 



Has a flrait bufhy tail, furrounded with three broad black rings. 



Jackal-adive. Sm. Buff", vii. 266. pi. cexxxviii. — Barbary Jackal. Penn. hilt, of quad. n. 144. 



By the Count de Buffon, on the authority of Mr Bruce, this animal is faid to be common in Bar- 

 bary, and named Thalei, which, Mr Pennant obferves, is the Arabick name for the Common Fox. 

 The colour of this animal is a pale brown, having a black line behind each ear, which, dividing into 

 two, extends to the lower part of the neck ; the nofe is long and {lender ; the ears are fharp and 

 erect ; and the tail is long and bufhy, being furrounded with three broad black rings. This animal 

 is very much of the fame fize and form with the Common Fox, but has ihorter legs. 



547 12. Black Fox. — 9. C. Vulpes Lycaon. 12. 



Has a ftraight tail ; and the body is entirely black. 



Erxleb. mam. 560. Schreber, iii. 353. tab. Ixxxix. Miller on var. fubj. tab. xix. B. — Vulpecuhi 

 nigra. SchefF. Lappon. 340.— Schwarze Fuchfe. Steller, Kamtfchat. 124. — Black Fox. Penn. hift. 

 of quad. n. 139. y. Arft. zool. n. ii. a. — Lupo nero. AlefT. quad. i. t. 24. 



Inhabits the colder regions of Europe, Afia, and America. —This is the moil: cunning animal of 

 the genus : It is exceedingly like the Wolf, and is of an intermediate fize between that animal and 

 the Fox. The colour is entirely black; fometimes, however, variegated with greyilh, or by having 

 the tips of the hairs of a filvery whitenefs. The fur is reckoned very valuable ; being preferred in 

 Ruffia to the fineft fables ; one fkin fometimes felling for four hundred roubles : Thofe of America 

 are inferior in beauty. — The above defcription refers diftinttly to a variety of the Fox ; and yet Dr 

 Gmelin quotes, as a fynonime, the Black Wolf of Buffon, with the plate and defcription already re- 

 ferred to in fp. 3. I. of this genus. — T. 



148 13. Fox.— IO. C. Vulpes. 4. 



Has a ftraight tail with a white tip. Schreber, iii. 354. tab. xc. 



Vulpes. Gefn. quad. 966. Aldr. dig. 195. Jonft. quad. 82. Raj. quad. 177 Renard, or Fox. 



Sm. Buff. iv. 214. pi. lxvi. — Fuchs. Riding, jagd. thiere. t. 14.— Fox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 139. 

 Brit. zool. i. 58. Arft. zool. n. 11. 



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