. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . w w X oIn oz D o o c 0) C a c3 E o o s o c .9 £ -a a CO tn § § £ I THE FARMERS SLY NEIGHBOR, 223 The largest and finest red fox skins come fromCanada, Labrador, Michigan, and Minnesota ; thesesell for a dollar and a half or a dollar and eighty-fivecents, 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 bythe larger red fox. But in the middle West he is stillcommon from s
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . w w X oIn oz D o o c 0) C a c3 E o o s o c .9 £ -a a CO tn § § £ I THE FARMERS SLY NEIGHBOR, 223 The largest and finest red fox skins come fromCanada, Labrador, Michigan, and Minnesota ; thesesell for a dollar and a half or a dollar and eighty-fivecents, 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 bythe larger red fox. But in the middle West he is stillcommon from southern Michigan to western NewYork, and from northern Indiana to South Carolinaand Tennessee. His coarse fur, which is stiff andlong haired, is blackish mixed with silver-gray, behindand beneath the ears is a rusty tinge, and the upperpart of the tail is very dark, characterized by longblack hairs. The skin is worth about sixty-five cents. * According to Prof. J. A. Allen, his most Northern range is notmuch beyond the parallel of 42°.
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