. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. â immmmtummsj^.. Ml! â i â ! I'M I r ; r 1 f i ! ) i i j J , â â â - 1 â¢â â - m 43 10. Arctic, ' iiv ARCTIC FOX. When Wolves come to make their attack on cattle, they never fail attempting to frighten away the men by their cries; but the found of the horn makes them fly like lightning. Arftic Fox, Hi/}. Siuad. N" âLev. Mus. irjOG. With a fliarp nofe: ears : hid in the fur, fhort and rounded: hair long, foft, and filky: legs fhort: toes covered above and below with very thick and foft fur: tail Ihorter than that of the common Fox, an
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. â immmmtummsj^.. Ml! â i â ! I'M I r ; r 1 f i ! ) i i j J , â â â - 1 â¢â â - m 43 10. Arctic, ' iiv ARCTIC FOX. When Wolves come to make their attack on cattle, they never fail attempting to frighten away the men by their cries; but the found of the horn makes them fly like lightning. Arftic Fox, Hi/}. Siuad. N" âLev. Mus. irjOG. With a fliarp nofe: ears : hid in the fur, fhort and rounded: hair long, foft, and filky: legs fhort: toes covered above and below with very thick and foft fur: tail Ihorter than that of the common Fox, and more bulhy. Inferior in fize to the common Fox: color a blueilTi-grey, and fometimes white. The young, before they come to maturity, duflcy. The hair, as ufual in cold regions, grows much thicker and longer in winter than fummer. Thefe animals are found only in the Ardic regions, a few de- grees within and without the Polar circle. They inhabit Sfitz- bergerii Greenland^ and Iceland *: are only migratory in Hudfon's Bay, once in four or five years f: are found again in Bering's and J Copper IJIe, next to it; but in none beyond: in Kamtf- chatka, and all the countries bordering on the frozen fea, which feems their great refidence j comprehending a woodlefs trad of heath land, generally from 70 to 65 degrees lat. They abound in Nova Zembla || : are found in Cherry ifland, midway between Finmark and Spifzbergen §, to which they muft have been brought on iflands of icej for it lies above four degrees north of the firft, and three fouth of the laft: and laftly, in the bare mountains be- tween Lapland and Norway. When the Arftic Fox has been ia purfuitof the wandering Lemmus, p. 136. Ar£}. Zool. it fometimes lofes its way home, and has been taken in places far from its ⢠Egede, tz.âMarten's Spitzb. 100âHorrehoiu's Iceland, 43. f Mr. Graham. t MuUer's Col, 53. |i Heemjkirk'i Foy. 34. § Purchas, iii. 559. natural 0. Please note that these images are extr
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