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readily perceived in the lower hump, longer tail, shorter 

 pelage on the head, neck, shoulders and fore legs, and the 

 longer and more slender horns. In the calf under one year 

 of age, it is not always possible. for even the best judges to 

 detect a strain of domestic blood. In the vear 1900 a male 



THE WICHITA NATIONAL BISON HERD, OKLAHOMA. 

 Nucleus presented by the New York Zoological Society, 1907. 



calf was inspected and passed by four men who were with 

 good reason considered qualified judges of the points of Buf- 

 faloes; but two years later that animal stood forth unmis- 

 takably as a cross-breed, one-quarter domestic. 



In judging Buffaloes, the finest animals are those with 

 the greatest height of hump, heaviest and longest pelage on 

 the neck and shoulders, shortest tails and horns curving with 

 the shortest radius. 



I regard the American Buffalo species as now reasonably 

 secure against extermination. This is due to the fact that it 



