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THE FOX. 



should go well to the North, into the British Posses- 

 sions, if I was bent on obtaining a specimen. 



One more item from the books. From the fact that 

 in the bone caves in this country skulls of the gray 

 fox are found, but none of the red, it is inferred by 

 some naturalists that the red fox is a descendant from 

 the European species, which it resembles in form but 

 surpasses in beauty, and its appearance on this conti- 

 nent comparatively of recent date. 



