The "foxy red" colouring of the typical race of north-western Europe is too well known to require description.
The name is extended to include the sing-sing or defassa waterbuck (C. def assa), a wides p read species, without the white ring on the buttocks, and represented by several local races, one of which is foxy red while a second is greyish.
This species is about the size of a red-deer, with a foxy red coat with black legs.
He would make that foxy old courtier feel that the responsibility for all the calamities that would follow the abandonment of the city and the ruin of Russia (as Rostopchin regarded it) would fall upon his doting old head.
The coat in summer is foxy red above and white below; in winter this changes to a greyish fawn, with a white rump-patch.