American Buffalo 



his relatives and companions shot down before his eyes with no 

 feeling than one of stupid wonder and curiosity. His stolid indiffer- 

 ence to everything he did not understand cost him his existence." 



In appearance the bull buffalo was easily the finest of our quad- 

 rupeds. "The magnificent dark-brown frontlet and beard of the 

 buffalo, the shaggy coat of hair upon the neck, hump and shoulders, 

 terminating at the knees in a thick mass of luxuriant black locks, to 

 say nothing of the dense coat of finer fur on the body and hind 

 quarters, give to our species a grandeur and nobility of presence, which 

 are beyond all comparison among ruminants." * 



* Hornaday op. cit. 



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