The Gray Fox is said not to be so rapid and enduring a runner; as to the rest its ways probably do not differ materially from those of its kinsman. Its haunts are thickets difficult of access and impenetrable to large Beasts of Prey, and rocks abounding in hollows and crevices; it’s hunting-grounds are the surroundings of its abode, from the sea-shore to the farm-yard. Audobon affirms, that though it is much more timid and shy than the Red Fox and is driven to flight not only by the bark of a Dog but even by the crackling of a branch; and although one hears little or nothing of inroads made by it on protected poultry yards or flocks of Sheep, yet the animal is detested and pursued in the south to the same extent as the Red Fox in the north. The latter, he says, may be compared to a sly, bold robber, the former to a sneak-thief. - Brehm’s Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and For the Use of Schools
