BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA 



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been so called, and 

 as such he will go 

 down to posterity in 

 the legends of those 

 great plains which 

 know him no longer. 



The Wood Buf- 

 falo and the Moun- 

 tain Buffalo appear 

 to be almost, if not 

 quite, identical with 

 the common type of 

 B. americanus, from 

 which they differ 

 only in habitat, in 

 the quality of their 

 coat, and in that 

 they are of some- 

 what smaller size 

 than their kinsmen 

 of the plains. 



A better idea of 

 the appearance of 

 the subject of these 

 remarks may be ob- 

 tained by a glance 

 at the illustrations 

 than could possibly 

 be given by any 

 amount of descrip- 

 tive writing, the il- 

 lustrations having 

 been drawn by 

 Mr. Whymper from 

 photographs of the 

 pure-bred beasts in 



