In Buffalo Days 
is found in the timbered Rocky Mountains; 
the “wood buffalo” of the Northwest, which 
inhabits the timbered country to the west and 
north of Athabasca Lake; and the “beaver 
buffalo.” The last named has been vaguely 
described to me by northern Indians as small 
and having a very curly coat. I know of 
only one printed account of it, and this says 
that it had “short, sharp horns which were 
small at the root and curiously turned up and 
bent backward, not unlike a ram’s, but quite 
unlike the bend of the horn in the common | 
buffalo.” It is possible that this description 
may refer to the musk-ox, and not to a buf- 
falo. The “mountain” and “wood” buffalo 
seem to be very much alike in habit and ap- 
pearance. They are larger, darker, and 
heavier than the animal of the plains, but 
there is no reason for thinking them specifi- 
cally distinct from it. Such differences as 
exist are due to conditions of environment. 
The color of the buffalo in its new coat is a 
dark liver-brown. This soon changes, how- 
ever, and the hides, which are at their best 
in November and early December, begin to 
grow paler toward spring; and when the coat 
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