MAMMALIA. FER£. Dog. 143 



Inhabits chiefly in the great defer t between the Ural and the Irtifh, in Afiatic Ruffia— This fpecies, 

 or variety, is lefs than the Common Fox, but, in other refpefts, is very fimilar ; it is greedy of birds, 

 has a bad fmell, and howls and barks exa&ly as they do ; the ears are upright, the hair is foft and 

 downy; the tail is bufhy, and as long as the body; the fur is of a pale tawny colour in fummcr, grow- 

 ing grey in winter, with a white throat ; the tail is cinereous, except the bale and tip. Forty or fif- 

 ty thoufand of the fkins of this variety are annually fold by the Kirghis Khaiflacks to the Rufliansj 

 being caught by means of Falcons and Grey-hounds. 



252 16. Karagan.— 13. C. Vulpes Karagan. 14. 



The tail is ftraight ; the body is of a grey colour, and the ears are black. 

 Karagan, Steppen fuchfe, or Defert Fox. Pallas, it. i. 199. 234. 

 Inhabits the deferts belonging to the Kalmucks and Kirgifes. 



2 cj 17. Silvery Fox. — 14. C. Vulpes chicreo-argev.tcus. 15. 



The tail is ftraight ; the body is of a filver grey colour, with the fides of the neck of a 

 yellowifh brown. Erxl. mam. 567. Sciirebcr, iii. 360. tab. xcii. A. 

 Silvery Fox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 143. Arc~t. zool. n. 13. 



Inhabits North America. — This animal is fmaller than the Common Fox, with which it agrees in 

 figure and manners. 



2.t/\ 18. Grey Fox. — 15. C.Vulpes inrguuanus, 16. 



Has a ftraight tail ; and the body is of a whitifh afh colour. Erxl. mam. 567. Schreber, iii. 

 361. tab. ^tcii. B. Brill", quad. 174. Klein, quad. 71. 



Grey Fox, Cateiby, Carolina ii. 78. tab. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 142. Arc"t. zool. n. 12. 



Inhabits Carolina, and the warmer parts of North America. — Lives in the hollow trunks of decayed 

 trees, and is eafily tamed. 



19 Arclic Fox. — 16. C. Vulpes Lagopus. 6. 



lias a ftraight tail ; and all the feet are remarkably hairy. Erxleb. mam. 568. 



Canis f. vulpes, with a ftraight tail, having the tip of the fame colour with the reft. Syft. nat. 

 cd. xii. 59. Schreber, iii. 362. tab. xciii. BrifT. quad. 174. 



Inhabits the countries on the Frozen Sea, and in North America, extending as far as Kamtfchatka, 

 and the iilands between that and America; is found in Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Nova Zam- 

 bia, and Lapland, and even fo far fouth as Chili. — This animal keeps moftly oh the naked mountains, 

 and is feldom found in forefts, living in burrows under ground, or in clefts of rocks ; it feeds on 

 mice, and the young of geefe, ducks, &05 and, when preiTed by famine, eats berries or fhell fifh : 

 It b:\rkj like the Fox, but has not the fame fetid fmell : The female goes nine weeks with young '. 

 The fur is reckoned valuable. Of this fpecies there are two varieties. 



