THE STORY OF THE FOX . 
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mer it preys upon the numerous land and aquatic birds. What it lives 
on in winter when the birds have left for a southern latitude no one 
seems to know, although it is believed that, like the squirrel, they lay by 
a store of provisions during the summer months. The Arctic fox is 
fond of bird’s eggs as well as of birds, and I once shot one which had a 
murre’s egg in its mouth. 
In Asia there are several breeds of desert foxes, the largest specimens 
AFRICAN ASSE FOX. 
having a striped appearance. In Central Asia we find the Corsac fox, of 
a paler color, white under parts, a black-tipped tail, and lacking the stripe 
of the desert fox. 
It is a thin-brained creature, possessing none of the cunning of the red 
and gray foxes of Europe and America. It is too lazy to make its own 
burrow, and finds its home in the burrow of the marmot, which that animal 
has either deserted or from which he has been evicted. 
Of the true foxes the pretty little Indian fox is the smallest, measuring 
