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In addition to his own captures Mr. Jones bought forty-two buffaloes 

 in Manitoba, fourteen of which succumbed on the journey south. He 

 raised seventeen buffalo calves in captivity, six of them dropped this year, 

 and has every prospect of continued success in that direction. He has 

 ten of these catalo. The buffalo and the catalo, by the way, run together, 

 and the domestic cow suckles a full-blooded bison as calmly as though an 

 infant of its own species. 



Mr. Jones has furnished buffaloes from his herd to parks all the way 

 from the Golden Gate on the Pacific to Austin Corbin's rock-ribbed estate 

 in Vermont. Others have gone to stir the curious interest of gazing 

 holiday crowds in Europe. Wild West shows and rich individuals with 

 private zoos to stock have also drawn on this herd for their supplies. 



The oldest buffalo living is supposed to be one in a Paris zoological 

 garden, which is known to be twenty-nine years old. Jumbo, nine years of 

 age, is the patriarch of the. Nebraska herd. 



Some time ago Mr. Jones made a generous proposition to the 

 Government looking to the regeneration of the race. He offered, if the 

 Government would provide the land and pay the bare expenses, to take his 

 herd to Texas, watch them carefully, and let them breed for twenty years 

 without taking any of them away. A Congressional committee made a 

 report favouring the setting aside of the land, but omitted the necessary 

 appropriation on the plea that all of Uncle Sam's spare cash was needed 

 for dredging unknown creeks and filling fathomless wallows. Unfortunately 

 Mr. Jones is a poor man. Austin Corbin and certain Englishmen are 

 scheming for possession of the herd, and there is danger that this, the 

 buffalo's last hope of salvation, may be ruined. 



NOTE III. 



FOR these interesting notes by the late Mr. A. C. Anderson, of British 

 Columbia, I am indebted to the late Dr. Tolmie, who informed me that 

 Anderson wrote them in the fifties: 



" Reasoning from analogy a doubt might possibly arise that conclusions 

 may have been too hastily arrived at, when it is asserted that the salmon 



