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fore buffalo, are likely to be, is pretty sure 

 to see any of the latter that may be about, 

 and then can easily approach near enough to 

 be able to overtake them when they begin 

 running. The size and value of the animal 

 makes the chase after it very keen. Hunt- 

 ers will follow the trail of a band for days, 

 when they would not follow that of deer or 

 antelope for a half hour. 



Events have developed a race of this 

 species, known either as the wood or moun- 

 tain buffalo, which is acquiring, and has al- 

 ready largely acquired, habits widely differ- 

 ent from those of the others of its kind. It 

 is found in the wooded and most precipitous 

 portions of the mountains, instead of on the 

 level and open plains; it goes singly or in 

 small parties, instead of in huge herds ; and 

 it is more agile and infinitely more wary 

 than is its prairie cousin. The formation 

 of this race is due solely to the extremely se- 

 vere process of natural selection that has 

 been going on among the buffalo herds for 

 the last sixty or seventy years ; the vast ma- 



