white fox

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a smallish fox, Alopex lagopus, of the northern regions, white in winter but blue-gray to brownish at other times.

Quotations

1696

"3 indians came to the fort one of which was the french Captain they brought nothing but 2 white fox skins."

1749

In the Beginning of the Month, the white Foxes began to appear in great Plenty; and many of them were catched.

1862

White Foxes have been killed on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, and a single blue one on the North shore.

1963

Eskimos trap white foxes, but he said he had received word that at one point only four foxes had been taken. . . .

the commercially valuable fur of this fox.

1784

Recd. one white Fox the first I have got this year. . . .

1820

A silver fox, white fox, or otter, are reckoned two beavers and a black fox, or large black bear are equal to four.

1964

. . . the price of white fox has risen to $25 from $10 in the 1950's.