238 
form of the skull in, 49 ; in lower jaw, 50; in its 
horns, 50; remarks on synonymy and nomencla- 
ure, 50; common names of, 51; on figures of, 
on 
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ts of, 
; gregarious propensity of, 55; character 
of the herds of, 55 - 57 ; See 56 ;-mater- 
nal affection, 58; moulting, 59 ; its adic. dis- 
ee ion, 59; migrations of, 60; its e wake of 
“wallowing,” 64; its “wallows,” how formed, 
65 ; stupidity of, 66; man its chief enemy, 67 ; 
attacks of wolves upon, 68 ; susceptible of domes- 
tication, 68, 215-221 ; geographical distribu- 
tion of, pas oe present, 71-191, 223-231 ; 
erroneous opinions respecting its foonee range, 72 ; 
probable extent of its range, 72 ; eastern limit of 
its range north of North Carolina, 74-91; not 
found within the present limits of He New 
England, New York, or Florida, 75 ; absence of 
its remains from the Indian shell-heaps - the 
Atlantic coast, 76, the mountains of Vir- 
ginia, 85; its occurrence on the sources of the 
James ies — 85; supposed teeth of, from 
Gardiner, Me., 1 ; its occurrence in the Car- 
olinas and Geoni, 92 —96, 225 ; never found near 
the coast in the ee 96 ; probably never in- 
habited Florida, 97-101, 226; not met with in 
Florida by the early ee 100, 225 ; range of, 
east of the Mississippi, 103-115, 223-231 ; in 
nion ©o., Pa., 87, 108, 223, 294. in ioe Vir- 
ginia, 110, ne ; résumé of range of, east of the 
Nicest 115 ; extirpation of, east of : Missis- 
sippi, 116, 229-231 ; not “driven westward,” but 
exterminated, 117; range of, west of the Rock 
Mountains, 118-125 ; Rocky Mts. supposed by 
some to be its western limit, 118 ; ranged over the 
sources of the Colorado River, 118, 120, 122, ee 
do. over the plains of the Columbia; EES, 
125; do. as far west as the Blue Minin a 
Oregon and the Sierra Nevadas, 118, 119 ; 
western limit of the range of, 125-128 ; ee 
limit of range of, 128-130; existed in the north- 
eastern provinces of Mexico, 128-130; seen in 
Texas in 1530, 128, 131 ; do. in 1685, 132; extir- 
pated froma large part of Texas before 1850, 136— 
141 ; date of ae ee from Arkansas, 141 ; 
from Missouri, 144 5 do: a Towa, oh 
144; do. fi ees 143 144; eee of, 
into oss and Southern ee 144; extirpa- 
tion of, from Eastern Kansas, 147; gre Lene 
of, on the plains of Colorado, 148, 150, ie ; extir- 
pation of, from the Parks of Colorado, 149 ; 
from the Laramie Plains, 150; influence of o 
Kansas railroads upon the decrease of, 151-15 
extirpation of, from Eastern Dakota, 155 ; do. near 
the 49th parallel, 156-160; do. in Eastern Ne- 
braska, 160 ; decrease of, in the Upper Missouri 
= 
aes ntiquus, remarks on 
INDEX. 
aes 160-166; former range and decrease of, 
in British America, 166-175 ; range of the Nort. 
ern a in 1875, a ; a remarks on the 
oe of, 175-177 ; recent destruction of, in 
ansas, 177 — 180 ; Reis ae of, ae 85 
ane remarks on the destruction of, 185-191 ; 
probable number of, annually killed in ee 
portions ofits habitat, 185-191 ; products of, 191 —- 
201 ; importance of, as a means of subsistence to 
the pioneer and explorer, 192; the flesh of, as an 
article of food, 192 ; value of, to the Indians, 196 ; 
wholesale destruction of, for their ae segs 
former supposed value of the wool of, 5 
importance of the excrement of, as an ie - 
fuel, 200, 201; the chase of, 202-215; by the 
Illinois Indians, 202; by the Sioux, 203 ; by the 
Minnetarees, 204 ; by the Crees, 205 ; capture of, 
by eae 205 — a estruetion of, by the 
Red River half-breeds, -—210; do. by white 
pee "10 213 5 still nies 210-212 ; get- 
ting a “stand” on, ; domestication of, ne 
221; ae crossed with domestic cattle, 216 — ; 
fe of the mixed breed, 217, 218 ; occurrence 
n the Shenandoah River, Va., 224; probable 
occurrence of, in Southern Cae 225 ; possible 
existence of, in Florida for a short perio, 225 ; 
its occurrence in Mississippi, 225 ; southward ex- 
tension of the range of, east of the Mississippi be- 
tween 1685 and 1750, 225, 227 ; presence of, for a 
short period eee a Tennessee and Missis- 
sippi Rivers, 226-229 ; found by Cortes in the 
possession of Montezuma, A duration of, in the 
Ohio Valley, 232 — 236 ; s of, not found in the 
caverns of Kentucky and ie , 234 ; proba- 
bly unknown to the mound- Poles Indians, 234. 
Sesh gues of remains - 21- 313 Dr. See 
ae of the original specimen of 22°; do. of 
a specimen from California, 22 ; notice of remains 
of, from Eschscholtz Bay, 23; remains from St. 
Michael’s and Tatlo River, Alaska, 24, 25 ; com- 
pared with other species of Bison, 25-31 ; other 
remains from ee 28, 29 ; remarks on 
synonymy of, 31 ; aes eee and 
geological position of remains of, 33, distribu- 
tion of remains of, in Miva 168 oe: 
Bison bonasus, measurements of atlas of, 14 ; do. 
of metatarsal bones of, 15;-do. of skull of, 26 ; 
do. of metacar es bones of, 30 ; compared with B. 
amerveamnu 46 ; measurements of skeletons 
of, 44 ; oe i of, 47. 
nee crassicornis, remarks on, 6, 20, 21 — 31 (passim). 
Bison, Great Extinct American. See Bison latifrons. 
Bison latifrons, history of the original specimen, 
-—5 >; views of Eur one writers respecting , a, 
17, 20; synonymy of, 7; account of remains ” 
8-17; compared with Bison priscus, 8, 11, 
