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not aware of any specimen of the Wood Buffalo that has been 

 stuffed, but I know that formerly some heads were sent out to Sir 

 George Simpson, who was the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Co. 

 Hoping this may be of service to you, I remain, 



Yours truly, 



H. I. MOBERLY. 



As previously remarked, Prof. John Macoun has kindly furnished 

 the writer with full data concerning the mounted specimen of Wood 

 Buffalo in the Ottawa Museum, and it is upon this specimen that 

 the following description is based. It was carefully mounted by 

 Ward, of Rochester, New York, in a tightly closed iron and glass 

 case. In consequence, Prof. Macoun was unable to get access to it 

 for more exact measurements. 



Bison bison athabascse subsp. nov. Woodland Bison. 



Type: — ad. S , in the Geological Museum, Ottawa, Canada. Pre- 

 sented through Warburton Pike, Esq., by the Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany. Secured presumably (fide Prof. J. Macoun) in March, 1892, 

 by Indians within fifty miles southwest of Fort Resolution, Great 

 Slave Lake. Specimen consists of well-mounted skin, with accom- 

 panying skull and horn-cores separate, all in one glass and iron 

 case. 



Syn. Bos or Bison americanus (= Bison bison) of authors, in part. 



"Bison americanus, var. ?" Seton [Thompson], Proc. Canad. 

 Inst., Ill, 1886, p. 114. 



General Characters. — Size larger, colors darker, horns slenderer, 

 much longer and more incurved and hair more dense and silky 

 than in B. bison. 



Description of type specimen from data furnished by Professors 

 J. Macoun and H. A. Ward : Pelage everywhere dense and silky ; 

 short and fine over much of hinder half of body, becoming very 

 dense and curly and long anteriorly, especially on shoulders and 

 neck and also quite long on the frontal aspect. Color along crest of 

 hump and vertebral line to rump "light brown," shading in all di- 

 rections to darker brown and becoming almost black on the whole 

 head, legs and belly. " Looking at head and legs you would say at 

 once they were black." Ears, muzzle, hoofs and horns and distal 

 half of tail black. 



Horns (on mounted skin) very long and strongly recurved. 

 u Curved inward so as to come towards the eye within two inches of 



