CHILI FOX. 329 
cases of necessity, eat the flesh. They also make 
buttons of the skins : and split the tendons, and 
make use of them instead of thread. The blue 
furs are much more esteemed than the white.'* 
The above ample and excellent account is from 
Mr. Pennant's Arctic Zoology. Mr. Pennant 
thinks it probable that the Fox described by 
Molina, who observed it in Chili, was of this 
species, viz. 
Far,? 
CHILI FOX. 
Canis Culpseus. C. canda recta elongafa, dpice concolore Icecu 
Molina Hist. Nat. ChiL 4. p. 259. 
Dog with strait elongated tail, with tip of a similar colour. 
This is supposed to be a variety of the Antarc- 
tic Fox. Its length from nose to tail is two feet 
and a half: its colour a deep brown : the tail is 
covered with short hair like that of a domestic 
dog: its voice is feeble, but has some resemblance 
to a bark. It inhabits the open countries of 
Chili, in Avhich it forms its burrows. The Chilians 
call it Culpeu, from Culpem, signifying folly ; it 
being considered as a silly animal. 
V. I. p. II. 
