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V U L P E S UTAH . — A u n . and Bach. 
Jackall Fox. 
PLATE CLI. 
V. corpore grandiore, pilis velleris longioribus nec non gracilioribus 
quam in V. fulvo, cauda magna cylindracea. 
CHARACTERS 
Largei than Vulpes fulvus ; fur longer and finer than in that species ; tail 
large and cylindrical. 
SYNONYMES. 
Vulpes Utah. — Aud. and Bach., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1852 , p. 114 . 
Vulpes Macroueus, Baird, Stansbury’s Report. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Claws slightly arched, compressed, channelled beneath, horn color ; 
hair, of two kinds, first, a coarse and long hair covering the fur beneath it ; 
second, a dense and very soft fine fur, composed of hairs that are straight, 
but crimped and wavy, as in the silver grey fox. Pur plumbeous at the 
roots, gradually becoming dark brown towards the tips in those parts of 
the body which are dark colored on the surface ; in those parts which are 
white, the fur is white from the roots, and on no part of the animal does it 
present any annulations. 
The long hairs are dark-brown from the roots, yellowish-white near the 
middle of their length, and are tipped with black. 
On the under surface the hairs are principally white their whole extent, 
with a few black ones intermixed ; the fur on the tail is rather less fine 
and more woolly than on the body. 
Feet covered with soft hair reaching beyond the toes on the forehead 
the hair is rather coarse and short, with fine fur beneath.- 
COLOUR. 
Greyish-white on the head, dark brown on the neck, greyish-brown on 
the dorsal line and on the sides ; the throat, under surface of the body, 
insides of legs, and feet black. 
The tail is irregularly banded with dark brown and dull white, the tip 
white for about three inches. 
