14 HOOFED ANIMALS 
Of wild Buffalo there are only three groups: 49 head in 
the Yellowstone National Park, about 75 Pablo “‘outlaws”’ 
around the Montana Bison Range and between 300 and 400 
head in northern Athabasca, southwest of Fort Resolution, 
existing in small and widely scattered bands, and not per- 
ceptibly increasing. 
The efforts of man to atone for the great Buffalo slaughter 
by preserving the species from extinction have been crowned 
with success. Two governments and two thousand individ- 
uals have shared this task,—solely for sentimental reasons. 
In these facts we find reason to hope and believe that other 
efforts now being made to save other species from annihila- 
tion will be equally successful. 
The Musk-Ox 
Tue Musx-Ox! is an inhabitant of the frozen North, the 
land of snow and ice, of howling storms and treeless desola- 
tion. In 1901 Commander Peary killed a specimen within 
half a mile of the most northerly point of land in the world, 
—the northeastern extremity of Greenland. 
How this animal finds food of any kind during the dark 
and terrible arctic winter, is yet one of the secrets of Nature. 
After making all possible allowance for the grass, willow and 
saxifrage obtainable by pawing through the snow and on 
ridge-crests that are swept bare by the blizzards, it is still 
impossible to explain how the Musk-Ox herds find sufficient 
food in winter, not only to sustain life, but actually to be well 
fed. 
1 O'vi-bos mos-cha'tus. 
