BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA 376 
been so called, and 
as such he will go 
down to posterity in 
the legends of those 
great plains which 
know him nolonger. 
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 bya 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 
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herd of buffaloes 
Colonel Bedson's 
