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in the southern tier of counties. One was taken January 31, 1905, 
in the northwestern part of Rock County, and during the same 
winter another was killed in the western part of Green County. 
Wild cats are reported not uncommon in Adams County, but else- 
where south of latitude 44° the species seems to be rare. 
Urocyon cinereoargenteus ocythous Bangs. 
Wisconsin Gray Fox. 
The type specimen of Urocyon c. ocythous was taken at Platte- 
ville. Grant County, Wisconsin (5), but the species appears to be 
common in only a few sections of the state, and principally in the 
western part. A male in the author's collection was taken by Mr. 
J. N. Clark, January 19, 1908, near Meridian in Dunn County. 
This specimen measured as follows: Total length, loii mm.; tail 
vertebrae, 378.3 mm. ; hind foot, 104.4 ; ear, 68.5 mm. I have 
examined no other gray foxes from the state. Mr. Clark informs 
me that this species is ''common in timbered sections" of Dunn 
County. 
Vulpes fulvus (Desmarest). 
Red Fox. 
Vulpes ftih'us is found in nearly all parts of the state, but the 
species is not constant in distribution and may be rare or entirely 
absent in a given locality for a period of years, then become quite 
common ; or it may be plentiful in a certain section then suddenly 
become rare. The species is almost as erratic in this respect as 
some of our squirrels, but the periods of its sojourn in a given 
locality or of its absence from a locality seem to be of longer dura- 
tion than in the case of squirrels. Previous to the autumn of 1903 
red foxes were practically unknown in northern Rock County; 
since that time they have not been uncommon there. Mr. J. N. 
Clark informs me that this species is rather uncommon now in 
Dunn County, whereas a few years ago it was abundant. 
Specimens have been examined from Ashland, Green, Oneida, 
