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VULPES L AG0PU-S.— Linn 
Arctic Fox. 
PLATE CXXI . — Winter and Summer Pelage. 
V. Auriculis rotundatis brevibusque, margine inflexa ; collari post 
gonas ; colore in mstate fusco, in hyeme albo. 
CHARACTERS. 
Ears, rounded, short, and folded at the edges ; cheeks with a ruff ; colour, 
in summer brown, in winter white. 
SYNONYMES. 
Pied Foxes. James’s Voyage, Ann. 1633. 
Canis Lagopus. Linn., Syst., vol. i. p. 59. 
Forster, Philos. Trans., lxii. p. 370. 
Arctic Fox. Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 42. 
“ Hearne’s Journey, p. 363. 
Greenland Dog. Pennant’s Hist. Quadr, vol. i. p. 257 (!) a young individual. 
Canis Lagopus. Captain Sabine, Parry’s First Voyage, Supplement, 187. 
Mr. Sabine, Franklin’s Journal, p. 658. 
Richardson, Parry’s Second Voyage, Appendix, p. 299. 
Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 92. 
Isatis, or Arctic Fox. Godman’s Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 268. 
Canis (Vulpes) Lagopus-Arctic Fox. Rich., Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 83 . 
Stone Fox. Auctorum. 
Terreeanee-arioo. Esquimaux of Melville Peninsula. 
Terienniak. Greenlanders. 
Wappeeskeeshew-makkeeshew. Cree Indians. 
Peszi. Russians. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Male in winter pelage. 
Head, not as much pointed as in other species of Fox ; ears, rounded, and 
presenting somewhat the appearance of having been cropped ; hairs on the 
ears, shorter than on the neighbouring parts. 
The cheeks are ornamented by a projecting ruff which extends from 
behind the ears quite around the lower part of the face, to which it gives 
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