patch fox

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; white fox
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/64623

patch n "Well!" said Allie, "I wish you would tell me if the different kinds of foxes are all different species. The white fox is surely a different kind from the red, and the gray and black from either." "There you are wrong!" remarked Mr. Taylor. "They are now said to be of one species, and the common red fox the father of them all. There are light and dark colored skins of this; then we have the variety known as the patch fox, which is only a darker and blacker form of the red; after that the cross or cross-patch, with a lighter area in the center of the black, in the form of a bar down the back and another across the fore-shoul- ders. The gray or silver gray has, according as it is a poor, a medium, or a fine skin, each hair alternating with a darker and blacker form of the red fox PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN JAN 1978 JH JAN 1978 Used I Used I 3 Used I Cornish ~, ~ fox, main ~, nothern ~, southern ~, Petch's ~, patch-bag, ~ bag.