MAMMALS-CANIDAE-VULPES VELOX. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal’gue 
number. 
Correspondi’g 
No. of skull. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original [Nature of 
number, specim’n. 
Collected by 
23 
Great Salt Lake 
Capt. Stansbury - 
_Red fox. 
1006 
Fort Dalles, O. T._ 
Jan. 1855 
Dr Suckley 
40 _.do_ 
1007 
2014 
■s 
_do_ 
Feb. 1,1855 
_do_ 
43 ..do_ 
1018 
56 ..do_ 
459 
Fort Boise, O. T ... 
_ _ _ do 
...do... 
458 
..do 
...do_ 
457 
25 ..do_ 
1788 
Fort Union Neb 
Lt. G. K. Warren. 
_.... “.do.-..- 
Dr. F. V. Hayden. 
1789 
......do... 
1790 
_..do_ 
r. . 
1828 
Fort Pierre, Neb 
do 
..do_ 
_do 
24 
Fort Laramie_ 
Col. S. Cooper .. 
_Cross fox 
A 
Salt Lake__ 
Capt. Stansbury.. 
VULPES VELOX. 
Kit Fox. Swift Fox. 
Cariis velox, Say, in Long’s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 487. 
Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 91. 
Godman, N. H. I, 282. 
Max. Reise.Nord-Amerika, II, 1841, 44, 256. 
Vulpes velox, Aud. & Bacii. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 13 ; pi. lii. 
Canis cinereo-argentalus, “ Sabine, in Franklin’s Jour. 658.” 
Cams (Vulpes) cinereo-argentalus, Rich. F. B. A. I, 1829, 98. 
Canis microtus, “ Reichenbach, Regnum Animale, I, 10, figs. 72, 73,” as quoted by Wagner in Wiegmann’s 
Archiv, III, 1837, ii, 162. 
Reichenbach, Universum des Thierreiches, 1,1846, 43. 
Ib. Raubsaugt. 1852, 100, figs. 72, 73. (Kit Fox of Leipsic fur traders.) 
Kit Fox, Lewis & Clark. 
Sp. Ch.— Smaller than red fox. Head short, broad. Ears small. Legs short. Tail very dense, cylindrical, and bushy ; 
about half as long as the body and head. General color above, including ears and tail, yellowish gray ; on the back conspicu¬ 
ously grizzled. Sides and portions of the legs pale reddish yellow ; rest of legs and beneath, whitish. Tail tipped with black. 
No blaok on the ears. 
This small fox is considerably less in size than the red or gray fox, and differs from both so 
strongly as to be at once recognizable among the American species. The under fur is remark¬ 
ably full and dense, much more so than in the red fox, and the interspersed longer hairs exceed 
in length the under fur so little as to permit it to be readily seen. The limbs are rather short 
but stout, the feet shorter and the body lower than in the red fox. There are the usual naked 
callosities on the feet, as in foxes generally. The soles are, however, so densely covered 
with long woolly hairs, as to conceal them from view. The fore claws appear rather sharper 
and more curved than those of the red fox. The head is considerably shorter and broader than 
in the red fox. The ears are very much smaller ; they are thick and densely coated with hair 
on both sides, except around the meatus. 
