Volume 28, Plate XXII* / Mammalia (Mammals)

Grey Fox

Vulpes cinereus

The grey fox is of doubtful existence, perhaps only the tri-coloured fox with the fulvous obliterated, the notion resting on Catesby’s figure, itself likely copied from a common fox and coloured from memory. A stuffed specimen seen at Plymouth was of ordinary size and densely furred, with nose, forehead, back, and flanks a uniform sepia and white-grey, white lips and belly, fulvous behind the ears, dull rufous arms and tail toward a black tip, and sepia-brown feet.