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colo(u)red fox

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the red fox, Vulpes fulva. See 1921 quote.

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1921

The "coloured" foxes, including the red, the cross, the silver, and the black--the latter three being merely colour phases of the former and not separate species. . . .

1966

Arctic or White Fox (Alopex Lagopus) . . . is about two-thirds the size of the coloured fox. . . .