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Feet. . Inches. 
From point of nose to root of tail, ‘ ; ; 2 8- 
Tail, (vertebre,) : : : 5 ; : “ 1 4. 
‘¢ (to end of hair,) : 1 8 
Circumference of tail, (broadest parts Joe 1 8 
From shoulder to fore- feet, . : iL) 9) 
From rump to hind-feet, ; : : . : : 1 6 
Height of ears, (posteriorly,) é : ‘ My 3 : 4 
From point of nose to eye, . : : oF 
Longest hairs on the brush, 5) 
1 OG on the body, 3 
Description.—Claws slightly arched, compressed, channelled beneath, horn 
color; hair, of two kinds, first, a coarse and long hair covering the fur beneath it; 
_ second, a dense and very soft fine fur, composed of hairs that are straight, but 
crimped and wavy, as in the silver gray fox. Fur plumbeous at the roots, 
gradually becoming dark brown towards the tips in those parts of the body which 
are dark colored on the surface ; in those parts which are white, the fur is white 
from the roots, and on no part of the animal does it present any annulations. 
The long hairs are dark-brown from the roots, yellowish-white near the mid- 
dle of their length, and are tipped with black. 
On the under surface the hairs are principally white their whole extent, with 
a few black ones intermixed; the fur on the tail is rather less fine and more 
woolly than on the body. 
Feet covered with soft hair reaching beyond the toes ; on the forehead the hair 
is rather coarse and short, with fine “far beneath. From. this intermixture of 
hairs the animal is greyish-white on the head, dark-brown on the neck, grayish- 
brown on the dorsal line and on the sides; the throat, under surface of the body, 
insides of legs, and feet are black. 
_ The tail is irregularly banded with dark brown and dull white, the tip white 
for about three inches. 
Another Specimen.—Nose, both surfaces of the legs, and behind the ears, dark 
reddish-brown; whiskers black; under side of neck, and a line on the belly, liver 
brown. Fur on the back very fine, and dark ashy- gray from the roots: the 
longer hairs on the back are-black at the roots, and are broadly tipped with white ; 
far on the sides, cinereous at the roots, and yellowish- white from thence to the 
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There is a reddish tinge on the neck, extending to the shoulders; sides of the 
face grizzly-brown; the hair on the tail is irregularly clouded with brown and 
dull white, and is lightest on the under surface. 
This animal was first noticed, by Lewis and Clarke, as the large red fox of the 
plains, (vol. 2, p. 168,) and was referred to by us in the first volume. of the 
Quadrupeds of North America, p. 54, where we described it from a hunter’s skin. 
Having obtained a beautiful specimen from Captain Rhett, of the United States 
Army, we now propose for it the name of Va/pes Utah, as it is, so far as our 
information extends, chiefly found in the Utah territory, although it ‘probably 
ranges considerably north of the Great Salt Lake. 
The habits of this beautiful fox are similar to those of the Red Fox, and it 
runs into many varieties of color. 
Captain Rhett informed us that he killed the specimen, kindly presented to us 
by him, near Fort Larimee, 
Several specimens of Vulpes Utah have been received at the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, and it will probably soon be wel! known. 
