BUFFALO or BISON 



Bison bison. 



This magnificent animal, who once roamed by the millions 

 over one-third of North America, from the Great Slave Lake to 

 northern Mexico, and from the western slopes of the Appalachians 

 to Nevada, has now less than seven hundred wild representatives 

 in one single, desolate spot southwest of the Great Slave Lake. In 

 captivity perhaps one thousand may still be found, of which the 

 largest herd, containing over one hundred head, is in the Blue 

 Mountain Park in New Hampshire, less than fifty in the once fa- 

 mous Yellowstone Park preserve, and the rest scattered in private 

 collections, zoological gardens, etc. 



This wholesale diminution of their number furnishes an un- 

 paralleled illustration both of man's thoughtless avarice and of the 



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