fowler (fouler)

[Early mod. E. also fouler; The bird that knowes not the false fowlers call Into his hidden nett full easely doth fall. Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 54. The foolish bird hiding his head in a hole thinks himself secure from the view of the fowler , because the fowler is not in his view. South , Works, VII. xiii. 2355 some countries, as Great Britain. It is more fully known as the red fox, and runs into several varieties, as the cro fox, silver or silver - gray fox, black fox, etc. The common Red Fox (Vulpes vulgar is or fulvus). fox of North America is very similar to the red fox of Europe, being probably not specifically distinct. There are many other true foxes, or species of Vulpes proper, in different parts of the world, one of the most notable of which is the arctic fox or is at is, V. lagopus, which is of a dark color, and turns white in winter. (See cut of arctic fox, under arctic. The corsak or adive ( V. corsac ) of Tatary North America by the kit or swift fox, V. velox. (See cut under corsak.) The gray fox of the United States is sufficiently different to have been placed in another genus, India is one of a group of small foxes, represented in Urocyon (as U. cinereo- argent at us ), to which the coast-fox of California ( U. littoral is ) also belongs. (The related animals of South America are thoöid, not alopecoid, and are known as fox - wolves, of the genera Lycalopex and Pseuda lopex.) The fennecs are small African foxes, closely allied to Vulpes proper, but commonly placed in a different genus, Fennec us. (See cut under fennec.) Resembling these externally, but structurally different, is the African fox, Mega lot is or Otocyon lalandi, a generalized form representing a different subfamily Mega lot in a. The tail of the fox called the brush. the English Bible the word fox refers in some places to the jackal, in others to the fox. See reynard. And whan the i seen the For, the i schulle have gret marveylle of him, be cause that the i saughe never suche a Mandeville, Travels, p. 267. Best. The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. But a month ago The whole hill-side was redder than a fox. Tennyson, Walking to the Mail. of zinc oxid. Fowler's solution. See solution.