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ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 
smaller and less bushy than in the former animals. The contour of the head 
is wolf-like ; the legs, however, are shorter than in the true wolves ; and the 
tail is white at the apex, a character common in the foxes. 
The fur of the Antarctic Fox is moderately long, and the under fur is not 
very abundant, especially as compared with that of the C. magellanicus. This 
under fur is of a pale brown colour ; the apical portion of each hair is yellow- 
ish ; the longer hairs are black at the apex, brown at the base, and annulated 
with white towards the apex. In many of these hairs the subapical pale ring 
is wanting. On the chest and belly the hairs are of a pale dirty yellow 
colour, gray-white at the base, and black at the apex. On the hinder part 
of the belly the hairs are almost of an uniform dirty white. The space around 
the angle of the mouth, the upper lip, and the whole of the throat, are white. 
The chin is brown-white, or brownish. The basal half of the tail is of the 
same colour as the body, and the hairs are of the same texture ; on the apical 
half of the tail they are of a harsher or less woolly nature, of a black colour 
at the apex, and brownish at the base ; those at the extreme point are totally 
white. The legs are almost of an uniform fulvous colour ; the feet are of a 
somewhat paler hue ; the hairs on the under side of the hinder feet are 
brownish, and the external and posterior parts of the tibiae are suffused with 
the same tint. The hairs on the head are grizzled with black and fulvous ; 
the former of these colours is somewhat conspicuous, excepting in the region 
of the eyes, where the fulvous or yellowish tint prevails. The muzzle is 
scarcely of so dark a hue as the crown of the head. The ears are furnished 
internally with long white hairs, externally the hairs are yellowish, with their 
apices black ; the latter colour is more conspicuous towards the tip of the ear. 
The sides of the neck near the ear are of a rich fulvous hue. 
Length from nose to root of tail 
from tip of nose to ear 
of tail (hair included) 
In. Lines. 
36 0 Length of ear 
7 3 Height of body at shoulders 
13 0 
Habitat, Falkland Islands. 
In. Lines. 
2 9 
15 0 
“Three specimens of this animal were brought to England by Capt. FitzRoy ; 
from one of which, the above drawing and description has been made. The 
earliest notice I can find of this animal is by Pernety,* during Bougainville’s voy- 
age, which was undertaken in 1764, for the purpose of colonizing these islands. 
The strange familiarity of its manner seems to have excited the fears of some of 
Journal Historique d’un Voyage fait aux lies Malouines, tom. ii. p. 459. 
