DOG. 
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I Corsak Fox. Canis corfac. C. cauda fulva bafi apiceque nigno 
Lin.JyJi. III. 223. 
D. with upright ears : foft downy hair t tail bufhy, 
the length of the body : throat white: irides yel- 
lowifh green : color in fummer pale tawny 5 in win¬ 
ter grey ; bale, and tip of the tail, black: a fmall 
kind. 
Inhabits the deferts beyond the Talk : lives in 
holes: howls and barks : caught by the Kirgh'ts- 
KbaiJJ'acksy with falcons and gre-hounds : 40 or 
50,000 are taken annually, and fold to the Ruffians , 
at the rate of 40 Kopeiks , or 20 pence each : the 
former ufe their fkins inftead of money: great num¬ 
bers are fent into Turky*. 
Common Fox inhabits all Europe * the cold and 
temperate parts of Afia **, Barbary , but not the 
hotter parts of Africa j abounds, in N. America ; 
and are alfo found in S. America f: in all countries 
have the fame cunning difpofition ; the fame eager- 
nefs after prey; and commit the lame ravages among 
game, birds, poultry, and the lelfer quadrupeds: 
are very fond of honey ; attack the wild bees, and 
nefts of wafps, for fake of the magots : will eat any 
fort of infefls : devour fruit •, and are very de- 
* Ritchkoff Topogr. Orenb. I. 2g6. 
** In great numbers in the Holy Land , efpecially in the feafon of 
grapes ; their ravages among the vines mentioned in the Song of 
Solomon, II. 15. 
t Garcdajfo de la Vega fays, that the foxes of Peru are much lefs 
than-thofe of Spain , and are called Atoc. p. 331. 
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