INDEX 



Abert, C'apt. J. W., reference by, to buffaloes in 

 Kansas, 14(i. 



Ailair, absence of references by, to buffaloes in the 

 Gulf States, 102, 228. 



Adams County, Ohio, horn-cores of Bison latifrons 

 from, 7, 11, 32. 



Aiken, C. E., on buffaloes in South Park, Col., in 

 187(i, 150. 



Alameda Co., California, remains of Bison antiquns 

 from, 29, 34. 



Albinism in Bison wmericanus, 39. 



Allen, Mrs. Frederic, supposed bison teeth in cabi- 

 net of, 89. 



Allen, ('apt. .1.. large herds of buffaloes seen by, in 

 Southwestern Minnesota in 1*44, 143. 



Allen, J. A., on tin- range of the buffalo on the Yel- 

 lowstone and Musselshell Rivers in 1873, 1C2. 



Anonymous authors, on the beasts of Xew England 

 in 1630, 77 ; do. of Virginia in 1649, 78 ; do. in 

 1650, 78. 



Apes reported to have been seen in Virginia, 88. 



Argoll, Sir Samuel, "cattle as big as kine" discov- 

 ered by, on the " Pembroke" River in 1613, 85. 



Arizona, probable absence of buffaloes from, 126. 



Arkansas, date of the extirpation of the buffalo from, 

 141, 144. 



Ashe, Thos., on buffaloes in Western Pennsylvania, 

 108 - 110 ; probable error of, respecting a buffalo- 

 trail to Onondaga Lake, 108 ; on the extirpation 

 of the buffalo in Western Pennsylvania, 116 ; 

 do. east of the Mississippi, 116. 



Ashley River, S. C, bison remains from, 6, 13. 



Atlases (jf bisons, description and measurements of, 

 13, 14. 



At water, ( laleb, reference by, to buffaloes in Ohio, 111. 



Audubon, J. J., on the habits of the buffalo, 62 ; 

 first met with by, on the Missouri River in 1843 

 at Fort Leavenworth, 146. 



Audubon and Baehman, on the occurrence of the 

 buffalo on the South Carolina seaboard, 92 ; on 

 the method of hunting the buffalo by the Indian 

 tribes of the Upper Missouri, 206. 



Baird, Prof. S. F., on the former range of the buffalo, 

 75 ; buffalo bones from the bone caves of Pennsyl- 



vania, 77, 87, 224 ; on the former occurrence of 

 buffaloes in Florida, 98, 100; on the expulsion of 

 the buffalo east of the Mississippi, 117 (footnote) ; 

 on legal protection of the buffalo, 180 (footnote) ; 

 statistics of the trade in buffalo-robes, 186. 



Bartram, AVm., mention by, of a buffalo lick in 

 Georgia, 94 ; the buffalo extinct in the Carolinas 

 in 1773, 95. 



Beck, L. J., reference by, to buffaloes in Missouri in 

 1823, 142. 



Beleourt, Rev. Mr., on buffalo-hunting by the Reel 

 River half-breeds, 155 ; mode of preparing pem- 

 mican, account of, by, 194. 



Belon, M., buffaloes seen by, on the Des Moines 

 River in 1837, 142. 



Bent's Fort, buffaloes near, 148, 151. 



Berlandier, Dr. J., on the range of the buffalo south 

 of the Rio Grande, 129, 130. 



Bessey, Prof., stray buffaloes near Council Bluffs in 

 1869, 143. 



Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, remains of Bison latifrons 

 from, 3, 32 ; remains of B. antiquus from, 6, 21, 

 33 ; remains of B. americanus from, 30, 53, 233 ; 

 on the saline springs at, 232 ; a natural trap for 

 the higher mammals, 233 ; remains of domestic 

 animals at, 233 ; abundance of bones of Bison 

 americanus at, 233. 



Bison, genus, synonymy of, 1, 3 ; distinctive char- 

 acters of, 1 -3 ; affinities of, 3 ; first discovered re- 

 mains of, 3 (footnote) ; first remains of, found in 

 North America, 3 ; relationship of the existing, to 

 the extinct species of, 35, 36. 



Bison, American. See Bison americanus. 



Bison americanus, same number of pairs of ribs as 

 the aurochs, 2 ; error of authors respecting the 

 number of its ribs, 2 (footnote) ; tooth of, from a 

 lead-crevice in Jo Daviess Co., 111., 13 ; measure- 

 ments of atlases of, 14 ; do. of metatarsal bones of, 

 15 ; do. of molar teeth of, 27 ; do. of lower jaw of, 

 28 ; do. of metacarpal bones of, 30 ; synonymy of, 

 36; description of, 36-39; albinism and mela- 

 nism in, 39 ; varieties of, 39 ; compared with the 

 aurochs, 41-46; measurements of skeletons of, 

 44 ; of skulls of, 47 ; individual variation in, 48- 

 50 ; supernumerary ribs in, 49 ; variations in the 



