. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. THE FARMER'S SLY NEIGHBOR. 223 The largest and finest red fox skins come from Canada, Labrador, Michigan, and Minnesota; these sell for a dollar and a half or a dollar and eighty-five cents, according to quality and size. The gray fox (Urocyon cinereo-argenteus) is rare- ly if ever found in New England nowadays.* He. The Gray Fox. is small, and it is said that he has been driven out by the larger red fox. But in the middle "West he is still common from southern Michigan to western New York, and from
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. THE FARMER'S SLY NEIGHBOR. 223 The largest and finest red fox skins come from Canada, Labrador, Michigan, and Minnesota; these sell for a dollar and a half or a dollar and eighty-five cents, according to quality and size. The gray fox (Urocyon cinereo-argenteus) is rare- ly if ever found in New England nowadays.* He. The Gray Fox. is small, and it is said that he has been driven out by the larger red fox. But in the middle "West he is still common from southern Michigan to western New York, and from northern Indiana to South Carolina and Tennessee. Plis coarse fur, which is stiff and long haired, is blackish mixed with silver-gray, behind and beneath the ears is a rusty tinge, and the upper part of the tail is very dark, characterized by long black hairs. The skin is worth about sixty-five cents. * According to Prof. J. A. Allen, his most Northern range is not much beyond the parallel of 43°.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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