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the wild bison thrives in captivity, and a Society 

 has been formed called "The American Bison Society," 

 for the permanent preservation and increase of the 

 American bison. There seems to be no reason why 

 their undertaking should not succeed. 



Attempts have been, and are being made, with 

 more or less success, to cross bison with common 

 cattle ; the hybrid being known as a " catalo." They 

 are very hardy and can live where ordinary cattle 

 would starve, besides producing very superior 

 hides. 



Jones and his brother, as I have said, caught 

 the progenitors of the Mammoth Hot Springs herd 

 in Texas. They were all roped as calves ; for it 

 was found that when a two-year-old beast was 

 captured he invariably died in a short time, Jones 

 said of a broken heart. 



These two men also supplied the Duke of Bedford 

 at Woburn with seven bison in 1896. In spite of 

 eleven deaths they have increased to twenty-five 

 in ten years. 



The bison furnishes a very interesting illustration, 

 as supplied to me by an old hunter, of the natural 

 adaptation of an animal to suit its surroundings. 

 It exemplifies, too, the rapidity with which such 

 a change may take place. 



The straggling remnants of the bison which were 

 left in the late seventies and early eighties had, so 

 my informant said, changed noticeably from their 

 original prototypes. The plains bison was a thick- 



