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tawny colour, with a white throat •, in winter, it is grey : 

 The tip of the tail is black. — It is fmalier than the com- 

 mon Fox j and its hair is foft and downy. 



It lives in holes in the earth, and is caught by the 

 Kirgis-Khaiflacs with falcons and greyhounds. Forty or 

 fifty thoufand are taken annually, and fold to the Ruf- 

 fians at the rate of forty copeics (about twenty-pence) 

 each. — The natives, in their traffic, ufe their Ikins in- 

 ftead of money. Great numbers are fent into Turkey. 



The Arctic FOX 



inhabits the countries bordering on the Frozen Sea. It 

 is found in Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Nova- Z em- 

 bla, and Lapland; in Kamtfchatka, and the oppofite 

 parts of America. — -It burrows, and makes holes in the 

 ground, feveral feet in length ; at the end of which it 

 forms a neft with mofs. In Greenland and Spitzbergen, 

 it lives in the clefts of rocks, being unable to burrow on 

 account of the froft. Two or three of them inhabit the 

 fame hole. 



It is endowed with all the cunning of the common 

 Fox ; preys on young geefe, ducks, and other water fowl, 

 before they are able to fly •, likewife, on hares, wild birds, 



