10 HOOFED ANIMALS 



to a grand attack upon the northern herd. In October, 1883, 

 the last thousand head were killed in southwestern Dakota by 

 Sitting Bull and about a thousand Indians from the Standing 

 Rock agency, leaving only the Yellowstone Park bunch of two 

 hundred head, a band of forty in Custer County, Montana, 

 and the Great Slave Lake herd of about five hundred head. 

 One of the largest Buffaloes ever measured by a naturalist 

 is the old bull which was shot (by the author) on December 

 6, 1886, in Montana, and which now stands as the most 

 prominent figure in the mounted group in the United States 

 National Museum. A very good picture of him adorns the 

 ten-dollar bill of our national currency. His dimensions in 

 the flesh were as follows: 



FT. IN. 



Height at shoulders 5 8 



Length of head and body, to root of tail 10 2 



Depth of chest 3 10 



Girth, behind fore legs 8 4 



Circumference of muzzle, behind nostrils 2 2 



Length of tail vertebrae 1 3 



Length of hair on shoulders 614 



Length of hair on forehead 1 4 



Length of chin beard 11^2 



Estimated weight 2,100 pounds 



The shoulder height of wild Buffaloes of various ages, 

 and both sexes, as taken by me on the Montana Buffalo range, 

 are as follows: 



FT. IN. 



Male calf, 4 months old 2 8 



Male one year old 3 5 



Male two years old 4 2 



Male five years old (average size) 5 6 



Female, three years old 4 5 



Female, eight years old 4 10 



