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however^ are larger and blacker than the others, 
and afford a richer and more valuable fur than 
that of almost any other quadrupeds. In Ame- 
rica this animal is principally found in Canada. 
In Kamtschatka it is in its greatest perfection; 
but the creature is of so subtle and wild a nature 
as to be very rarely obtainable. A single skin 
has been valued at 400 rubles. The American 
black Foxes are often of a mixed colour, being 
dashed with a cinereous cast on the face, sides, 
BRANT FOX. 
Canis Alopex. C. cauda recta; apice nigra, Lin. Syst. Nat, 
Gmel.p. 74. 
With strait tail, black at the tip. 
This is less than the common Fox^ and has a 
thicker and dusker fur, though sometimes, on 
the contrary, it is much brighter and redder than 
that species, as mentioned by Linnaeus in his 
Fauna Suecica : the tail is tipped with black. A 
Pennsylvanian Brant Fox, described by Mr. Pen- 
nant, was scarcely half the size of the common 
Fox. It had the nose black, much sharper than 
in that animal; the space round the eyes ferru- 
ginous; the forehead and all the upper parts of 
the body black mixed with red, ash-colour, and 
black: the ash-colour predominated, which gave 
it a hoary look: the belly yellowish ; the tail black 
above, red beneath, and ash-coloured on the sides. 
