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dance of buffaloes seen by, in the Ohio Valley, 105, 

 106 ; buffaloes seen by, on the Des Moines River, 

 142 ; on the use of the wool of the buffalo by the 

 Illinois Indians, 197 ; on buffalo -hunting by the 

 Illinois Indians, 202. 



Chase of the buffalo, description of the, 202-215. 



Cibola, situation of the ancient pueblo of, 126. 



Cicuic, where situated, 126, 128 ; abundance of buf- 

 faloes on the plains of, in 1540, 128, 134. 



Cincinnati See. of Nat. Hist., horn-cores of B. lati- 

 frons belonging to, 11. 



Clayton, John, enumeration by, of the beasts found 

 in Virginia in 1688, 78. 



Colhoun, reference by, to buffaloes in the Abbeville 

 District, S. C, 95 ; do. about Lake Ontario, 107 ; 

 on his supposed evidence of the occurrence of the 

 buffalo in Western Mexico, 127. 



Colorado, decrease of the bnfialo in, 150, 151. 



Columbia River, plains of, buffaloes on, 118. 



Cooper, Dr. J. C, measurements of a skull of B. an- 

 tiquus from California, 16; on the *' mountain 

 bison," 40 ; distribution of the buffalo on the 



Upper Missouri in 1860, 157. 

 Cope, Prof. E. D., on the former existence of the 



bison in Maryland, 85. 

 Coronado, buffaloes where first seen by, 126. 

 Cortes, buffaloes found by, in captivity in Mexico, 



231. 

 Coues, Dr. Elliott, reference by, to capture of buffa- 

 loes in West Virginia, 111 ; reference by, to evi- 

 dences of former occurrence of the buffalo in Ari- 

 zona, 126 ; decrease of and present range of buffa- 

 loes near the 49th parallel, 157 - 160 ; on " buffalo 



chips," 200. 



Cow, wild, a term sometimes applied by early writ- 

 ers to the moose and elk, 74, 82, 83, 87. 



Coxe, Ross, buffaloes on the Assinniboine River, 168. 



Croghan, Geo., buffalo on the Ohio River in 1765, 



229. » ^ . 



Cuming, John, reference by, to buffaloes in Ken- 

 tucky, 112 ; on the disappearance of the buffalo 

 from the Ohio Valley, 116. 



Cuvier Baron G., on the distinctive characters of 

 bisons 1 ; on the number of ribs in B. americanus 

 and B. honasus, 2 ; on American fossil bison re- : 



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mains, 4, 17. 



Dakota, extirpation of the buffalo from Northern, 



155, 156. 



Dall, W. H., bison remains collected by, in Alaska, 

 24, 25 ; on distribution of bison remains in Alas- 

 ka, 168 (footnote). 



Darien, Ga., bison remains from, 13, 14, 15, 32. 



Davis, W. H. H., cited respecting the point where 

 Cabega de Vaca was shipwrecked, 131 ; extracts 

 from his translations from Vaca's journal, 131 ; 

 reference to his account of Espejo's journey, 134. 



I Dawson, Prof. G. M., on the distribution of the buf- 

 falo above the 49th parallel, 173, 174. 



De Challeux, strange beast seen by, in Elorida, 98. 



De Kay, Dr. J. E., on the former range of the buf- 

 falo, 74. 



De Laet, on a supposed reference by, to the buffalo 



in Western Mexico, 127 ; reference by, to the buf- 

 falo as an inhabitant of the region of Quivira, 129. 



De risle, GnilL, map by, cited, 102. 



De Solis, on buffaloes seen by Cortes in Mexico, 



231. 

 De Soto, Hernandez, absence of reference by, to 

 buffaloes in present State of Florida, 98 ; do. Gulf 

 States, 101 ; exploration of Florida and Georgia 

 by, 100 ; " ox-hides '' obtained by, 100 ; authori- 

 ties on the route of, 102 (footnote) ; reference to 

 his expedition reaching the range of the buffalo in 



Arkansas, 133. 



Diminution of the buffalo, general remarks on, 175. 



Dodge, CoL R. I., on the habits of the buffalo, 57, 

 58, 62, m ; extirpation of, by the Sioux Indians, 

 163; cause of the disappearance of the buffalo 

 from the Laramie Plains, 164. 



Domestication of the buffalo, 215-221; not yet 

 properly attempted, 215 ; early reference to the 

 supposed value of the buffalo as a domesticated 

 animal, 215 ; easily crossed with domestic cattle, 



216-219, 



Donaldson, John, buffaloes found by, on the Cum- 

 berland River, 114. 



Drayton, John, on buffaloes in South Carolina, 96. 



Du Pratz, Le Page, on absence of buffaloes in '' Low- 

 er Louisiana," 102, 225 ; occurrence of buffaloes 

 in Mississippi, 225-227. 



Ellsworth, H. L., on the disappearance of the buf- 

 falo from Illinois, 117. 



Elton, Mrs. Romeo, supposed teeth of a bison in 

 cabinet of, 89 ; information received from, 90. 



Elvas, Gentleman of, reference to his account of De 

 Soto's expedition, 100 (footnote), 133. 



Emory, W. H., on range of the buffalo on the Arkan- 

 sas River in 1842, 146. 



Erie, Lake, references to buffaloes on southern shore 



of, 82, 107. 

 Erocoise, Lake, position of, 108. 

 Escalante, Father, reference to MS. journal of, 125. 

 Eschscholtz Bay, bison remains from, 5, 6, 10, 35. 

 Espejo, Father, great herds of buffaloes met with by, 



on the Pecos River in 1584, 133. 



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Faujas-Saint-Fond, Earth,, description of Peak's 

 original specimen of B. latifrons from a plaster- 

 cast, 4. 



Figures of the buffalo, 51 - 53. 



Filson, John, reference by, to buffaloes in Ken- 

 tucky, 112. 





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