. American animal life . <f 5rtfarty ■ lattir^irii |Mi|||IM|-| dtllil KIT-FOX AND JACK-RABBIT. ElHE daintiest and smallest of all the foxes is the pretty little kit-fox. Hiscoloring is as dainty as the little fellow himself—a beautiful light silver-gray,mixed with long yellow hair. The under part is white; but, unlike his family,he has no white tip on the end of his brush, which is ten inches long. Likehis fox brothers, however, he burrows in the ground for a home and seldomdares go very far away from his burrow, as he has so many enemies. Fortu-nately he need not go far away for food, lor
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. American animal life . <f 5rtfarty ■ lattir^irii |Mi|||IM|-| dtllil KIT-FOX AND JACK-RABBIT. ElHE daintiest and smallest of all the foxes is the pretty little kit-fox. Hiscoloring is as dainty as the little fellow himself—a beautiful light silver-gray, mixed with long yellow hair. The under part is white; but, unlike his family, he has no white tip on the end of his brush, which is ten inches long. Likehis fox brothers, however, he burrows in the ground for a home and seldomdares go very far away from his burrow, as he has so many enemies. Fortu-nately he need not go far away for food, lor he can catch plenty of prairie-dogsand ground-mice right at his own door on the prairie. In fact, the prairie is the only home of this strange, beautiful little fellow. He is not foundin the East; but anywhere on the Great Plains, from the Rio Grande to the Saskatchewan, the dainty kit-foxes will be seen playing all around, or rolling and tumbling like little pup-pies. At one time there were many of them, but now they are getting more scarce; beingless cunning and wise than other foxes, they