THE FOX. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes before; four behind. 

 Vifage long. 



Synonims. 

 Can is Vulpes, Linn, Syji, 59. 

 Canis Fulvus, Briffbn. Quad. 173. 

 Vulpes, Gefner Quad. 966. Rail. Syn. Quad. 177. 

 Fuchs, Klein Quad. 73. 

 Fox, Brit. Zoo I. 1. 58. 

 Le Renard, de Buffon, vii. 75. tab. vi. 



THE Fox, the Wolf, and the Dog are in general fo like each other, in 

 their external and internal flru&ure, that it is almoft impoflible to form an 

 accurate idea of either from bare defcription. 



The internal parts of the Fox greatly refemble thofe of the Dog. His 

 external form and appearance, however, differ confiderably from that animal, 

 to which he is in many refpecls nearly related : his head is larger in proportion, 

 and his ears fhorter: his eyes are fituated more oblique, and his tail is more 

 bufhy: he has a flrong, offenfive fmell, which is peculiar to his lpecies, 

 and which the Dog has not: he differs alfo from the dog in his difpofition: 

 crafty and fufpicious by nature, he is never entirely tamed, or rendered 

 familiar and domeflic, but is always forced to be confined, and foon dies of 

 chagrin at the lofs of his liberty. 



