14 HOOFED ANIMALS 



Of wild Buffalo there are only three groups: 49 head in 

 the Yellowstone National Park, about 15 Pablo "outlaws" 

 around the Montana Bison Range and between 300 and 400 

 head in northern Athabasca, southwest of Fort Resolution, 

 existing in small and widely scattered bands, and not per- 

 ceptibly increasing. 



The efforts of man to atone for the great Buffalo slaughter 

 by preserving the species from extinction have been crowned 

 with success. Two governments and two thousand individ- 

 uals have shared this task, — solelv for sentimental reasons. 

 In these facts we find reason to hope and believe that other 

 efforts now being made to save other species from annihila- 

 tion will be equally successful. 



The Musk-Ox 



The Musk-Ox 1 is an inhabitant of the frozen North, the 

 land of snow and ice, of howling storms and treeless desola- 

 tion. In 1901 Commander Peary killed a specimen within 

 half a mile of the most northerly point of land in the world, 

 — the northeastern extremity of Greenland. 



How this animal finds food of any kind during the dark 

 and terrible arctic winter, is yet one of the secrets of Nature. 

 After making all possible allowance for the grass, willow and 

 saxifrage obtainable by pawing through the snow and on 

 ridge-crests that are swept bare by the blizzards, it is still 

 impossible to explain how the Musk-Ox herds find sufficient 

 food in winter, not only to sustain life, but actually to be well 

 fed. 



1 O'vi-bos mos-cha'tus. 



