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Arctic Fox aliases of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton in the arctic fox chapter of Volume 1 part 2
Arctic Fox, White Fox, Polar Fox, Stone-Fox, Blue-Fox, Brown Fox, Sooty Fox, Pied Fox, Greenland Dog, Snow-Dog, or Isatis
Alopex lagopus or Vulpes lagopus
French Canadian; Renard blanc, Renard blue
Cree; Wappeeskeeshew, Makkeeshew
[Inuit]; Ka-túg-u-li-a-guk
Chipewyan; Et-thip-py
Siberian (probably); Isatis, the aboriginal name offered for our use by Buffon who got it from Gmelin, 1760.
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