142 MAMMALIA. FER2E. Dog. 



Inhabits Europe, Ana, Africa, and America, as far as Chili. — Is the AXo^l of Ariftotle and Aelian, 

 and the Kss^» of Oppian. - This animal is very cunning, and dwells in holes of its own t. gging ; it 

 preys on lambs, geefe, ducks, poultry, and fmall birds, and even eats the dung of other animals; be- 

 comes fat in France by feeding on grapes in autumn, and at this time his fleih is reckoned very good 

 eating ; it does not readily commit thefts in the immediate neighbourhood of its haunts ; is much 

 aftraid of fire arms, and even flies from the fmell of gun-powder, and may be chafed away by means 

 of fmoke: The body is of a deep tawny-red colour, with black fore feet, and tips of the ears ; the ears 

 are ereft, and the lips are white: It emits a ftrong rank odour from the bafe of the tail. 



14. Brant Fox. — 11. C.Vulpes Alopex. 5. 



The tail is ftraight, and has a black tip. Schreber, iii. 3 5 3. tab. xci. 



Fox, having a thicker fur than the common kind, and of a blackifh colour. Gefn. quad. 967. 



Inhabits Europe, Afia, and Chili. — This animal is lefs frequent, fmaller, and of a darker colour, 

 than the Common Fox, to which it is very fimilar in all oth^r refpe&s. Since it is found both in 

 Chili and the Old Continent, it ought alfo to inhabit the intermediate regions in the north of Ame- 

 rica ; and, accordingly, that defcribed by Mr Pennant came from Penfylvania. Authors do not feem 

 properly agreed about the animal to which this name is given ; at leaft the Coal Fox of Buffon, and 

 the Brant Fox of Pennant, are confiderably different, though quoted by Gmelin as fynonimous; they 

 are therefore in this edition fubjoined as varieties. — T. 



2\,(\ «• American Brant Fox. — C. Vulpes Alopex amerlcanus. 



The tail is black above, red beneath, and cinereous on the fides. Penn. hift. of quad. 

 n. 139. ^. Arcl. zool. n. 11. 7. 



Inhabits Penfylvania. — This animal is hardly half the fize of the Common Fox ; the nofe is black 

 and very fharp ; the fore-head, back, fhoulders, fides, and thighs, are afh coloured, mixed with red 

 and black, and having a hoary look ; the belly is yellowifh. 



2jo /3. Coal Fox. — C. Vulpes Alopex europcuus. 



Has remarkably black feet. 



Charbonnier, or Coal Fox. Sm. Buff. iv. 221. 



Inhabits Burgundy, where it gets the name of Renard Charbonnier, or Collier Fox, from the 

 blacknefs of his feet and legs, as if they had become fo artificially by working among charcoal duft. 

 This variety is of a filver grey colour •, having the tail tipt with white, like the Common Fox." 



•251 15. Corfac Fox. — 12. C. Vulpes Cotjac. 13. 



lias a ftraight tawny tail, which is black at the root and tip. Syft. nat. ed. xii. app. 3. 

 p. 23. Schreber, iii. 359. tab. xci. B. 



Korfaki. Rytfchkow, Orenb. i. 232. Pallas, neue nord. Beytr. i. 29 — Corfak Fox. Penn. hift. 



of quad. n. 1.39. £. Arft. zool. n. 11. J. Sm. Buff. vii. pi. cexxxix. 



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