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ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 
4. Canis Azar#:. 
Plate VII. 
Canis Azarag, Pr. Maximilian , Beitrage zur N aturgeschiclite Braziliens, vol. ii. p. 338. 
Agouarachay, Azara, Essais sur l’histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la Province du Paraguay, 
tom. i. p. 317. 
C. supra albo nigroque variegatus ; lateribus cinerescentibus ; capite, auribus ex- 
tern^, artubusque, cinereo-cinnamominis ; mento nigro ; tibiis externis ad basin nigro 
lavatis ; cauda albescent e, supra nigro variegata, ad apicem nigra ; spatio pone 
angulos oris, gutture, corporeque subtiis albescentibus ; f asciis duabus griscescenti- 
bus in pectore plus minusve distinctis. 
Description. — Compared with the common fox ( Canis Vulpes, Auct.), the present 
animal is rather smaller, and of a more slender form. Its limbs are a little 
longer in proportion ; the ears are not so broad. The tail is not quite 
so bushy, neither is it so long ; the fur is much longer, and of a harsher 
nature. 
The predominant colours of the body are black and white ; the limbs are of 
a fulvous hue externally. The hairs on the under part of the feet are dirty 
brown ; the fore part of the anterior legs, and the feet, are of a buff colour ; 
on the former, the hairs are more or less distinctly tipped with black, which 
produces a grizzled appearance. The inner side of the fore legs is of an uni- 
form pale buff colour ; the hinder part of these legs, the fore part of the pos- 
terior legs, and the inner side of the thighs, are white. On the outer side of 
the hinder legs, at some little distance above the heel, is a large blackish 
patch. The under parts of the body are of a dirty white hue, arising from 
the hairs being dusky or brownish at the base, and tipped with white, as on 
the fore part of the belly, or of a pale buff colour at the base, as towards the 
rump. The edge of the upper lip, the throat, neck, and chest, are white ; a 
broad grayish band extends across the latter, and another of a paler hue 
crosses the lower part of the neck. The chin is black, and this colour is ex- 
tended backwards around the angle of the mouth. The upper part of the 
head is of a pale yellow-brown colour, each hair being annulated with white 
near the apex. The ears are furnished with white hairs internally, and ex- 
ternally they are of a yellowish brown colour, tipped with black ; at the base 
of the ears, and the portion of the neck on each side nearest to them, the 
