INDEX. 



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Dr. Leidy's description of, 8 ; Dr. Carpenter's de- 

 scription of remains of, from Texas, 10 ; horn-cores 

 of, from Adams Co., Ohio, 1 1 ; teeth of, from Natch- 

 ez, Miss., 13 ; supposed remains of, from Georgia, 

 13-15; compared with B. prisons and B. anti- 

 ques, 16 ; remarks on synonymy of, 17-21 ; geo- 

 graphical distribution and geological position of 

 remains of, 32. 



Bison, Mountain, 39. 



Bison priscus, remains of, where found, 3 (foot- 

 note) ; compared with B. latijrons, 16 ; compared 

 with B. antiquus, 25-31 (passim). 



Bison 2>risciis ? Richardson, remarks on, 6, 7, 14, 20, 

 25. 



Bison, Smaller Extinct American. See Bison antiquus. 



Black Hills, buffaloes north of, in 1868, 164. 



Bceuf sauvage, a term frequently applied to the 

 moose and the elk, 74, 87. 



Bois de Vache. See Buffalo Ch ips. 



Bojanus, L. H., on fossil bison remains from North 

 America, 5 ; not author of the name Bos jiriscus, 

 18 (footnote). 



Boll, J., on the range of the buffalo in Texas in 

 1874-75, 140 ; do. in 1876, 141. 



Bones, buffalo, collection of, for economic purposes, 

 190, 200. 



Bonneville, Capt., buffaloes met with by, on the 

 sources of the Columbia, 123. 



Boone, Daniel, great number of buffaloes seen by, in 

 Kentucky, 112 ; do. in Tennessee, 114. 



Boone, Nathaniel, reference to buffaloes killed by, in 

 West Virginia, 111. 



Bos americanus. See Bison americantis. 



Bos bonasus. See Bison bonasus. 



Bos priscus, 5, 7. See also Bison priscus. 



Bos urus, 5, 21. 



Bowen, E. T., statistics of the shipment of buffalo 

 products over the Kansas Pacific Railway, 189. 



Brackenridge, on the restriction of the range of the 

 buffalo east of the Mississippi, 117 ; wool of the 

 buffalo as a useful product, 198. 



Bradbury, John, on buffaloes in Eastern Nebraska 



in 1810, reo. 



Bradley, Gen. F. H., buffaloes in the Black Hills 

 Country in 1868, 164. 



Brandt, Dr. J. F., on localities of remains of Bison 

 prisnis, 3 (footnote) ; on the relationship of the 

 extinct and existing species of Bison, 20. 



Brewer, Prof. W. H., on distribution of woodland in 

 the United States, 115. 



Brickell, John, on the country of the Toteros and 

 Sapona Indians, 92 ; on the occurrence of buffa- 

 loes in North Carolina, 93. 



Bryne, J. H., reference to his itinerary of Gen. Pope's 

 explorations in Texas, 139. 



Buckland, Dr. Win., on fossil bison remains from 

 Eschscholtz Bay, 5, 13. 



Buffalo, on the use of the term, as a designation for 



the American Bison, 51. 

 Buffalo. See Bison americanus. 

 Buffalo, Mountain, 39 ; Wood, 39, 167, 172. 

 " Buffalo chips," use of, as fuel, etc., 200, 201. 

 Buffalo Creek, in Pennsylvania, 87, 108, 223, 224 ; 



in Georgia, 225 ; in Mississippi, 228. 

 Buffalo-hunters of the Plains, account of the, 211 - 



215. 

 Buffalo pounds, 205 - 207. 

 Buffalo Springs, Va., 86, 87. 

 Buffalo Wool Company, account of, 199. 

 Buffe, a term often applied to the elk and moose, 74, 



7.9, 84. 

 Buffle, a term applied to the moose and the elk, 74, 



84, 87. 

 Burgoignon, N., buffalo seen by, in South Carolina, 



about 1580, 96. 

 Butler, Capt. W. F., buffaloes in British America, 170. 

 Butler, Gen. Richard, buffaloes along the Ohio River 



in 1770, 229. 

 Byers, W. N., buffaloes in the parks of Colorado in 



1875, 149 ; great decrease of buffaloes on the 



plains of Colorado, 150. 



California Academy of Sciences, skull of Bison 

 antiquus received from, 24. 



California, bison remains from, 6, 7, 29, 34. 



California overland emigration, influence of, upon the 

 distribution of the buffalo, 144. 



Carlton House, buffaloes abundant at, in 1840, 109. 



Carolinas, early enumerations of the animals of, 78. 



Carpenter, Dr. Wm., description of fossil bison re- 

 mains from Texas, 5, 10. 



Carr, Lucian, information received from, 226 ; affin- 

 ities of the mound-building Indians, 235. 



Cartier, J., wild beasts met with by, on the St. Law- 

 rence in 1534, 75. 



Carver, Jonathan, buffaloes seen by, about Lake 

 Pepin, 103. 



Castenada, bis description of the buffalo quoted, 135. 



Catesby, Mark, buffaloes seen by, in South Carolina 

 and Georgia, 94. 



Catlin,. George, buffalo " wallows," how formed, 65 ; 

 buffaloes attacked by wolves, 67 ; references to his 

 map of the distribution of the Indian tribes, and 

 incidentally of the buffalo, 129 (footnote), 144 ; 

 buffalo-hunting by the Sioux Indians, 203. 



Cattle, domestic, early rapid increase of, in Mexico, 

 84 (footnote) ; sub-fossil remains of, from Mary- 

 land, 85 (footnote) ; occurrence of bones of, at 

 Big Bone Lick, 233. 



Champlain, his report of a " beast like an ox " seen 

 on the St. Lawrence, 80. 



Charlevoix, Francis X., occurrence of buffaloes on 

 the south shore of Lake Erie, 82 ; " wild lemons " 

 found growing about the Detroit River, 88 ; abun- 



