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FULVOUS-NECKED FOX, &C. 
and above the eyes reddish ; the ears are black on 
the outside, and white within, with the edge and 
base red ; and near the base is a white spot, 
from which, along the back to the tail, runs a 
reddish or yellowish streak ; the throat and breast 
are of a deep or blackish grey • the belly white. 
Fulvous-necked fox. 
This fox, according to Mr. Schreber, inhabits 
North America ; and the skins are often sent oyer 
to Europe. 
The crown of the head, neck and back, are 
grey, mixed with black and white ; the finer hairs 
being white-grey, the coarser varied with black 
and white, like a porcupine's quill ; the ears are 
externally yellow-brown towards the tip, mingled 
with black ; about the ears and on the sides of 
the neck, there is a fox-yellow patch ; the throat, 
breast, and belly are white ; the legs externally 
yellow-brown : on the fore legs, runs from above 
inwards, a very small black and white mixed 
stripe, which terminates below in a broader black 
one ; on the hinder legs a white stripe runs in- 
wards, and underneath joins with a blackish one ; 
the tail is brown, mixed with a little yellowish. 
In size this species is inferior to the common 
fox. 
Bengal fox. 
This species inhabits Bengal. It is scarcely 
half the size of the European fox. The face is 
cinereous ; the body pale brown ; the legs ful- 
vous ; the tail tipped with black ; and down 
themiddle of the face runs a black stripe. The 
species round the eyes and the middle of the jaws 
