Februarv, 1S93.] 



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seen a group of Virginia Deer, five in number, 

 which are feeding on the slope of the moun- 

 tain. This group, Wke all others of the Deer 

 kind, is headed by a lordly Buck, which seems 

 to feel his superiority over all other animals. 



Coming around on the eastern end of the 

 wing the visitor finds himself in front of one 

 of the finest groups of animals in the whole 

 collection, from an artistic point of view. 



This is a group of six Elk. The group is 

 headed bv a Bull that is said to be the finest 



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ever taken from the mountains for the pur- 

 pose of mounting. He stands ten feet and 

 nine inches from the point of his toe to the 

 tip of his antlers, and is not only the mon- 

 arch of the Rockies, but a veritable \Vorld's 

 Pair King. He leads a band that presents a 

 picture of still life most wonderfully conceixed 

 and executed. 



Here the ground slopes off toward a bit of 

 prairie land, and a group of Antelope, six in 

 all, stand and lie in a spot, showing the pe- 

 culiar characteristics of this most beautiful 

 of the Deer kind. 



Crouched in the bunch grass near the Ante- 

 lope are two Jack Rabbits, one squatting 

 close to the ground, the other erect and alert, 

 watching for its natural enemies. 



The last group along the wall is on the ex- 

 treme southeast and is one that never fails to 

 attract attention. It is a group of Buffalo, 

 or the American Bison. An immense Bull, 

 the largest ever mounted, not excepting the 

 famous Bull in the American Museum and 



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that other in the National Museum, is the 

 leader of this herd of five, and right royally 

 does he carry off the palm of being the finest 

 specimen ever shown anywhere in the world. 



The group is one of the most natural of the 

 entire e.xhibit. 



The \isitor has now gone from the swamp 

 land of the Minnesota around by the moun- 

 tains of British Columbia and Colorado to the 

 prairie land of Western Kansas and Texas, 

 and as he turns from the walls which he has 

 been following he sees the prairie spreading 

 out toward the centre of the wing. Here he 

 first sees a trio of immense Buffalo \\"olves 

 tearing at the decaying carcass of a Buffalo. 



The Wohes are true to life and are gnaw- 

 ing at the carcass of a Buffalo that was found 

 in the famous Ban Handle of Texas. This 

 group is one of the interesting bits and for 

 scientific accuracy is hard to beat. The ex- 

 pression on the faces of the Wolves is such 

 that it brings a shudder to the obsener, who 

 fully realizes that the terrible tales told of the 

 ravages of these savage animals have never 

 been o\erdra\vn. Sitting and standing near 

 the snarling Wolves is a group of Coyotes, 

 eight of the little Wolves being congregated 

 in a bunch. This group is enlivened by a 

 spirited contest between three young Coyotes 

 who are struggling over the carcass of a Jack 



