*55 
DOG. 
ftruftive in vineyards: bury what they cannot eat: 
fond of balking in the fun. 
Lodge under ground •, generally making ufe of a. 
badger’s hole, which they enlarge, adding feveral 
chambers, and never negle&ing to form another 
hole to the furface to efcape at, in cafes of extre¬ 
mity : prey by night: females in heat in winter; 
bring five or fix at a time; if the young are difturb- 
ed, will remove them one by one to a more fecure 
place : their voice a yelp, not a bark: their bite 
like that of the wolf, is very hard and dangerous : 
their fcent exceflively ftrong; the chace on that ac¬ 
count more keen, more animating: when chafed 
firft attempt to recover their hole, but finding that 
flopped generally fly the country* 
Vulpes alba, Jonjion quad. 93. apice concolore. Lin. fyjl. qg. 
Fox, Martens Spitzberg. 100. Fial iacka, Faun.fuec: No. 8. 
Egede Greenl . 62. Crantz Greenl. Canis hieme alba, aeftate ex ci- 
72. nereo cserulefcens. Brijfon quad . 
Allien-colored Fox, Schaffer Lap- 174. 
land, 135. liatis, Nov. Com. Petrop. V. 358. 
Canis Lagopus. C. cauda re&a, de Buff'on, xiii. 272. Ajh.Miif. 
£). with a fiiarp nofe : ihort rounded ears : almoft 
hid in the fur : long and foft hair, fomewhat woolly : 
ihort legs : toes covered on all parts, like that of a 
hare, with fur: tail fiiorter than that of the com¬ 
mon fox, and more bulky : of a bluilh grey, or afh- 
eolor •, fometimes white : the young of the grey are 
black before they come to maturity : hair much 
longer in winter than fiimmer, as ufual with animals 
of cold climates; 
Inhabits 
113, Arctic, 
