Gray fox

Foxes, San Mateo County photos©CLCase  

"A goodly supply of English red foxes is being hurried toward California. They will be set free in a large enclosure back toward the foothills behindd the town of San Mateo and left there to increase in numbers. For the present, at least during this season, the fox will not be hunted, for the reason that tje number must first be materially increased begore any of them are set at liberty in the hills. That will not be until the following hunting season, but there will be royal sport through the mesa lands and the rolling foothills down the peninsula.” San Francisco Call 80 (181): 5, Nov. 28, 1896.