A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea

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Mammal, p. 201, sp. 304.
Fk. Cdvieb, Diet, des So. Nat. VIII. p. 561. jEsrNs, Brit. Vert. p. 14. Blas. Wirbelth. Deutsch. I. 191.
Canis melanogaster, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. faso. I. f. 1.
Vulpes vulgaris, Brissok, Reg. Anim. p. 239, 5. Flem. Brit. An. p. 13.
Le Senard, Bupfon, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 67, t. iv.
Fox, Pennant, Brit. Zool. I. p. 71. Shaw, Gen. Zool. I.
p. 314.
The Fox has been celebrated from the earliest anti- G G 226 COMMON FOX.
quity for the cunning and ingenuity which it manifest
...s, whether in obtaining food or in eluding pursuit. The general expression of its features, the obliquity and quickness of the eye, the sharp, shrewd-looking muzzle, and the erect ears, afford the most unequivocal indica- tions of that mingled acuteness and fraud which have long rendered it a byword and a proverb ; for it is well known that this character of its physiognomy is not falsified by the animal's real propensities and habits.
The Fox spends much of his time in burrows ; either excavating them for himself, or seizing upon and appro- priating the preoccupied habitations of some other fos- sorial animal, as the Badger or the Rabbit.


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