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quadrupeds 
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SPECIES II. The FOX. 
.Vulpes. Raii fyn. quad. 177. 
Morton Northampt. 444. 
Meyer's an. 1 Tab. 36. 
Canis fulvus, pilis cinereis inter- 
mixtis. BriJJbn quad. 239. 
Baffin. Tom. 7. 75. Tab. 6. 
Gefner quad. 966. 
Vulpes auctorum. Haffelquift Itin. 
191. 
Canis vulpes. Lin. JyJi. 40. 
Canis cauda recta. Faun, fuec. 14: 
Vulpes vulgaris. Klein quad. 71. 
Britijh, Llwynog,/<««. Llwynoges 
French , Renard 
Italian , Volpe 
Spanijh , Rapofa 
> NAMES 
Portug. Rapoza 
German , Fuchs 
* Dutch, Vos 
> * • r 
Swedijh. Raff 
E fox is a crafty, lively, and 
libidinous animal, and will almoft 
as readily engender with the wolf, 
dog, or any congenerous beafts, as with its 
own fpecies. It fleeps much in the day, but 
is in motion the whole night in fearch of prey. 
It will feed on flelh of. any kind, but its fa¬ 
vorite food is lambs, rabbets, hares, poultry, 
and feathered game. It will, when urged by 
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hunger, eat carrots and infers; and thofe that 
live near the fea-coafts, will for want of other 
food, eat crabs, fhrimps, or fhell filh. In 
France and Italy , it does incredible damage 
in the vineyards, by feeding on the grapes, of 
which it is very fond. The fox is a great 
deftroyer of rats, and field mice } and like the 
cat, will play with them a confiderable time, 
before it puts them to death. 
When the fox has acquired a larger prey 
than it can devour at once, it never begins to 
feed till the reft is fecured, which it does with 
great addrefs. It digs holes in different places, 
returns to the fpot where it had left the booty 5 
and (fuppofing a whole flock of poultry to 
have been its prey) will bring them one by 
one, and thruft them in with its nofe, and then 
conceal them by ramming the loofe earth on 
them, till the calls of hunger incite him to pay 
them another vifit. 
Of all animals the fox has the moft figni- 
ficant eye, by which it expreffes every paflion 
of love, fear, hatred, &c. It is remarkably 
playful, but like all other favage creatures 
half reclamed, will on the left offence bite thofe 
it is moft familiar with. 
It is a great admirer of its bufhy tail, with 
which it frequently amufes and exercifes itfelf 
by running in circles to catch it; and in cold 
weather wraps it round its nofe. 
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