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Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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a second or third time. Nos. 9 and 10 shot should be used for shooting these birds, which, on trial, will be found not only sufficiently large to kill the bird at a clever distance, but not to do injury when necessity compels the shooter to kill his bird close at hand, as is too often the case. The Rail shooter is often rewarded with better kind of game. Ducks, teal, plover, and frequently snipe are met with and killed, and it is no uncommon circumstance for some individuals to carry duck guns, by which means a few of these birds are added to the list. Rail sell well in market, although such numbers are killed, as most families desire a taste of this popular bird, and was it not for their thick skins, and the intolerable difficulty of divesting them of feathers, they would be regarded as equal to any bird of game. These circumstances make many good housewives flinch from the task of preparing them for the table; and when anything grows unpopular with the ladies, it is nullified at once. D.
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 145 GRAY FOX. C^NIS CINEREO-JiRGENTJiTUS. (Plate XIII. Vol. 2.) Renard GHs.-Briss. quad.p. 41.—.dgourachay: Azara,quad due Paraguay, i. p. 317. Canis Cenereo ar-gentatiis. Gmel. Sabine, Zool. apjj. p. 657. God-man, vol. I. p. 280.—Fulvous-necked Fox. Shaw,Zool. Miscel. The Gray Fox is an inhabitant of all parts of the United States, from Louisiana to Canada, and as far west as the Rocky Mountains—its chief abode, however, is about human habitations, where it is more destructive than the other species. They are more numerous in the Southern States, more particularly Virginia, and form the chief source of amusement to the sportsmen of that state. The Gray differs from the Red Fox in many particulars, although some writers make it only a variety of the latter, and indeed confound the whole race together, attributing the difference only to changes of climate and circum-stances. The Gray Fox is different in colour and in many of its habits, and possesses more cunning

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