Summary: | blue fox n 348 WRECKED ON LABRADOR. dark and light areas, so that in a fine skin the whole fur has the appearance of being silver gray. The black fox is simply a very dark silver gray, and is pure black only in very fine skins. The blue fox is a very rare one now, and without fine doubt another variety,-perhaps a cross be- tween a white and a red fox." "And a white fox?" asked Freddie. "Well, some naturalists try to make that a distinct species, and others hold that centuries of living in the Arctic regions has changed its fur and dwarfed its size, and that is nothing but a variety of the common red fox, after all." PRINTED ITEM W.J. KIRWIN JAN 1978 JH JAN 1978 Not used Not used Withdrawn Withdrawn but no stamp
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