TIIK BUFFALO. 



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shoulders, while the horns are of about the same length. In 

 colour they vary greatly, changing according to the season of 

 ihe year. 



THE BISON, COMMONLY CALLED THE BUFFALO IN AMERICA. 



Throughout the wide-extending prairies of North America, 

 from north to south to the east of the Rocky Mountains, vast 

 herds of huge animals — w^ith shaggy coats and manes which 

 hano" down over the head and shoulders reachino- to the oround, 

 and short curling horns, giving their countenances a fei'ocious 

 aspect — range up and down, sometimes amounting to ten 

 thousand head in one herd. They commonly go by- the name 



THE BISON. 



of buffaloes, l»ut are properly called bisons. Clothed in a 

 dense coat of long woolly hair, the bufialo is w^ell constituted 

 to stand the heats of summer as well as the cold of the snowy 

 l>lains in the northern regions to wdiich he extends his 

 wanderino's. 



Let us look at him as he stands facinu" us on his native 



