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Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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several colours, \iz.: Red Fox—AMien red or yellow over sides and back. Silver Fox—When no red is present. Cross or Patch Fox—When the sides and ncrk are red and the ba(k, shouldersand hij-s are silver. .An intermcdate between filver ard red. The red, i-i.ver and cross foxes are not distinct sp, cies and not even distinctbreeds. Silver foxes umally breed true to colour, and continued s( lection willinsure the distinctive colour rrarkings of each colour ^ ariety. Scientists, of course, follow the universal rule of measuring^theskulls and teeth for classification purposes. The colour is not aconsideration with them. Merriam classified the North American redfoxes as follows: V. fulvus—Ontario, Quebec, Eastern United States. V. bangsi—Labrador and North shore of gidf of St. Lawrence. V. deletrix—Newfoundland. V. ruhricosa—Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Gaspe, Prince Edward Island.* * As it has been segregated for ages, the Prince Edward Island fox is, possibly,distinct variety.
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FUR-FARMING IN CANADA 21 V. regalis—Manitoba, Dakota, Montana, Alberta. V. macrourus—Wyoming, Nevada. V. abietorum—British Columbia, Alberta, North West Territories. V. alascensis—Alaska, Yukon. V. harrimani—Kadiak islands. V. kenaiensis—Kenai peninsula. V. cascadensis—Washington, Oregon, California. V. mecator—California. Investigation of the debated question of the colour phasesPhases ^^ foxes has produced definite information regarding its occurrence. The fact that the cross, silver, black andred colours are all colour phases of the common red fox is of too commonknowledge to warrant the citing of the many cases examined for evi-dence. The colours all exist and why they exist may be left to thediscussion of biologists, some of whom say that ages ago foxes wereoriginally dark coloured and that the silver is atavistic. It will bemore useful in this discussion to describe how the costlier, darker colouris produced from cheaper, red parents. A summary of the facts may b

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