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sooty fox
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a rare colour phase of the Arctic fox.
See: blue fox
Quotations
1853
The "sooty fox" is a variety of the "Arctic," distinguished from it only by its colour, which is of a uniform blackish brown.
1863
. . . our distinguished travellers would shoot . . . ptarmigan, blue or sooty foxes . . . and musk ox after camping on the shores of the Copper Mine and Great Slave Lake.