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body, and the shape of the horns and skull. Were the hind-quarters at all 

 equal in development to the withers, the American bison, with its magnifi- 

 cent head and robe of long hair, would undoubtedly be a far finer and 

 handsomer animal than its relative of the Caucasus and Lithuania ; as it 

 is, it must yield the palm to the latter. The two reproductions from 

 photographs illustrating this account are taken from a magnificent pair of 



Fig. 67. — Bull American Bison at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the Duchess ot Bedford. 



these animals now living in the Duke of Bedford's park at Woburn Abbey, 

 and may be compared with those of the European bison on pp. 1 17 and 1 19. 



The American bison, or '•'• bufiialoe," as it is almost universally called in 

 its native country, is now well-nigh extinct in the wild condition, although 

 a few of the typical race survive in the Yellowstone National Park, and 

 others are reported to occur in the Pan Handle of Texas, while more of 

 the woodland race still remain in the neighbourhood of the Great Slave 

 Lake. 



As regards the numbers of this animal now surviving, an excellent 



