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INDEX. 



form of the skull in, 49 ; in lower jaw, 60 ; in its 

 horns, 50; remarks on synonymy and nomencla- 

 ture, 50 : common names of, 51 ; on figures of, 

 .">l -.">:}; fossil remains of, 53, 233 : brief notice 

 of its geographical distribution, ">1 ; habits of, 

 .">."> -7c : gregarious propensity of, 55; ■ 

 of the herds of,55-57 ; reproduction, 56 ; mater- 

 nal affection, 58 ; moulting, .">:i ; it- nomadic dis- 

 position, .">:»; migrations of, 60; its fondness oi 

 "wallowing," fit: it- "wallow-," how formed, 

 ii stupidity of, (if: man its ehi f enemy, .' ' 

 attacks of wolves upon, 68 ; susceptible of domes- 



.. 68, 215-2i'l ; geographical distribu- 

 tion of, past and present, 71-1!>1. 223-231; 



ius opinions respecting it- former rat 

 probable extent of its range, 7^ ; eastern limit of 

 its range north of North Carolina, 7-1 -ru ; not 

 found within the present limits of Canada, New 

 England, New Fork, or Florida, 7-"> ; ab 

 it- remains from the Indian shell-heaps of the 

 Atlantic coast, 7<:. ss ; in the mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, 85 ; its occurrence on the sources of the 

 James River, Va., 85; supposed teeth of, Iron. 

 Gardiner, Me., 89-91 ; its occurrence in the Car- 



ind Georgia, 92 -96, 225 ; never found near 

 1 16 bably never in- 



habited Florida. ti7-lid. 226; no! met with in 

 Florida by the early explorers, 100, 225 ; i 



the Mississippi, L03-115, 223 231 ; in 

 Union Co., Pa., 87, L08, 223, 224; in West Vir- 

 ginia, 110, ill ; resume' of range of, east of the 

 Mississippi, 115 ; extirpation of, east of the Missis- 

 sippi, 116, 229-231 ; not "driven westward," but 

 exterminated, 117; ran-'' of, weal of ti 

 Mountains, lis 125; Rocky Mis. supposed bj 

 some to 1"- it- western limit. 118 ; ranged over the 

 sources of the Colorado River, 118, 120,122, 124; 

 do. over the plain- of the Columbia, 118, 121- 



125 j do. as far west as the Blue Mountains oi 



Oregon and the Sierra Nevada*, 118, 119; south- 

 western limit of the range of, 126 128 ; southern 

 limit of range of, 128 130; existed in the north- 

 pirn in rs of Mexico, 128 130 . 

 n 1630, 128, 131 ; da in 1686, 132 : extii 



from a large part of Texas before I860, 136 

 ill ; date of extirpation from Arkansas, in ; do. 



' I i. 142, III; do. from Iowa, 1 12 



III; .1... in. m Minnesota, 1 1:'., Ill: divi 



into Northern ami Southern Herds, III; extirpa 



lion of, li E istern Kans 



of, on the plains off,,],, i ad... 1 18, 160, 161 ; extir- 

 pation of, from the Parks of Colorado, 149; do. 

 from th.' Laramie Plains, IK); influence of the 



i of, I ">l !•"• I ; 

 I lakota, loo . 

 the 19th parallel, 166 160 ; da 



of, in tie' I |'i« i 



country, 160- l^t; ; former range and decrease of, 

 in British America, 166- 17."> ; range of tin- North- 

 ern Herd in 1876, 174; general remarks on the 

 destruction of. 175- 177 ; recent destruction of, in 

 Kansas, 177- -180; reckless waste of. 180- 185 ; 

 statistical remarks on the destruction of, 185 - 191 ; 

 probable number of, annually killed in different 

 portions of its habitat, 185-191 : products of, 191 - 

 201 ; importance of, a- a means of subsistence to 

 the pioneer and explorer, 192; tin- 11. -h of, as an 

 article of food, 192 ; value of, to the Indians, 196 ; 

 wholesale destruction of, for their hides, 197 ; 

 former supposed value of the wool of, 197—199 ; 



importani f the excrement of, as an article of 



furl, 200, 201 ; the chase of. 202-215 : by the 



Illinois Indians. 202 ; by the Sioux, 203 ; by the 



Minnetarees, 204 ; by the Crei -. ^ ||_ . ; capture of, 



bj impounding, 205-207 ; destruction of, by the 



Red River half-breeds, 208-210; do. by white 



hunters, 210-213; still hunting, 210-21! 



ting a "-tand" on, 211 ; domestication of, 215- 



l'l'1 ; easily crossed with domestic cattle, 216-221 ; 



character of the mixed breed, 217, 218 ; occurrence 



■■'>.;■■ Shenandoah River, Va.. 224 ; probable 



He ..I", in Southern Georgia, -.~i ; possible 



in Florida for a short period, 226; 



in Mississippi, 226 ; southward ex- 



tension of the range of. cast of the Mississippi be- 



tween ic>s."> and 1760, 225, 227 ; present f. for a 



short period between the Tennessee and Missis- 

 sippi Rivers, 226 - 229 ; found by Cortes in the 

 possession of Montezuma, 231 ; duration of, in the 

 Ohio Valley, 2 nesof,not found in the 



caverns of Kentucky and Tennessee, 234 ; proba- 

 bly unknown to the mound-building Indians, 234, 



Bison aiitiquus, remarks on. 6, 1 - » ; synonomy of, 

 l'I ; description of remains of, 21 :il : Dr. Leidy's 

 description of the original specimen of, 22 ; do. of 

 a specimen from California, 22 ; notice of remains 

 of. from Eschscholtx Bay, 23 : remains from St, 

 Michael's and Tatlo River, Alaska. 24, 26 ; com- 

 pared « ith other -p -i : other 

 remain- from California, 28, -'.< ; remarks on 

 synonymy of, :il ; geographical distribution ami 

 geological position of remains of, 33, 34 ; distribu- 

 tion of remains of, in Alaska, 168 (footnote). 



Bison bonasiiB. measurements of atlas of. 1 1 ; do. 



of metatarsal bones of, 16; do. of -kull of, 264 



do, of metacarpal bones of, 30 ; compared with /.'. 



;i 16; measurements of skeletons 



of, 11 : of skulls of, 17. 



■ marki on, 6, 20, 21 '■'■) (pa sim). 



11. I American. S. . 



Bison latifrous. history of the original specimen, 



I Km. .p. an v 



17, 20; synonymy "t.7; account ..1 remains of, 

 8 17 ; compared « itli /■' B, II. lfi ; 



