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S80 SOOTY, AND ANTARCTIC FOX. 
are white. It is said to feed chiefly oa roots and 
berries. 
Sooty fox. 
This., in size and habits resembles the arctic fox, 
but is a distinct species. It is said to be nume- 
rous in Iceland, and is mentioned only by Mr. 
Pennant. 
Antarctic fox. 
This animal is mentioned under the name of 
wolf fox in Bougainville’s voyages ; it is one 
third less than the common fox ; has pointed ears 
lined with white hair ; its head and body are of 
a cinereous b rown ; its hair is more woolly than 
that of the common fox; its legs are dashed with 
a rust colour ; its tail is dusky and lipped with 
white ; shorter and more bushy than that of the 
common fox ; it has much the appearance and ha- 
bit of a wolf in ears, tail, and strength of limbs. 
Pennant suspects it to be the small Mexican wolf 
degenerated. 
It inhabits the Falkland isles, and is the only 
quadruped in those distant isles that lives near 
the shores ; it kennels like a fox, and forms regu- 
lar paths from bay to bay, probably for the con- 
veniency of surprising the water-fowl, on which 
it lives ; it is at times very meagre, from want 
of prey. It is very tame, fetid, and barks like 
a dog. 
The Antarctic islands are supposed to have 
been stocked w ith these animals by means of islands 
of ice, broken from the continent and carried by 
the currents. 
