. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . e and skillful trappers, kept on the job throughout theyear, to keep the number of coyotes in the park to a practicallyharmless minimum. Mountain Red Fox: Vvl/fxH fulva mocroura liaird.—The moun-tain red or cross foxes aie occasionally seen in Olacier Park, andin :ill their vai-ious color phases can be readily recognized by thehirgc white tips of the bushy tails. They vary in color fr-om theyellow red to a very much daikei yellowish brown, with often a pro-nounced dar-k stripe across the shoulders
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . e and skillful trappers, kept on the job throughout theyear, to keep the number of coyotes in the park to a practicallyharmless minimum. Mountain Red Fox: Vvl/fxH fulva mocroura liaird.—The moun-tain red or cross foxes aie occasionally seen in Olacier Park, andin :ill their vai-ious color phases can be readily recognized by thehirgc white tips of the bushy tails. They vary in color fr-om theyellow red to a very much daikei yellowish brown, with often a pro-nounced dar-k stripe across the shoulders, which gives this phase the!.ame of cross fox. J. E. Lewis, at Lake McDonald, had some skinsof the pure red, but more of varying shades of cross, and one thatwas showing the white tips on a very dark undeifur that would havebeen flassed as a silver-gray, except for- a little rusty on the sides oftlic neck and flanks. I could get no record of the pure black foxfr-om the park ar-ea, but this fully melanistic phase is so rare thatvei-y few are taken anywhere iij the Kocky Mountain region. All. ILuUi. by J, A. IjoriiiZ Vm. in.—Mouritalu nd fox In WinJ Illv<tains, Wyoming. 101IM. Mouii- MAMMALS, 85 the grades of color comprise but a single species or subspecies of thered fox group. In 1895 Hank told me that there were a few red foxes aboutSt. Mary Lake, and Don Stevenson caught a pair on SwiftcurrentCreek in 1903 and says that old trappers reported them abundant inthe eighties. In July, 1917, one was seen near Piegan Pass, and theyare reported b} Gibb as fairly common in the open along the crestof the range. In their favorite haunts on Hudsonian Zone meadowsand open slopes, ground squirrels, mice, and birds supply them withabundant food, and among the broken rocks safe dens are alwaysavailable. Their slender tracks in the trails and occasionally thesharp fox bark are the usual indications of their presence, except asone of the animals may be seen gliding lightly acr
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