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readily perceived in the lower hump, longer tail, shorter 
pelage on the head, neck, shoulders and fore legs, and the 
longer and more slender horns. In the calf under one year 
of age, it is not always possible for even the best judges to 
detect a strain of domestic blood. In the year 1900 a male 
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THE WICHITA NATIONAL BISON HERD, OKLAHOMA. 
Nucleus presented by the New York Zoological Society, 1907. 
calf was inspected and passed by four men who were with 
good reason considered qualified judges of the points of Buf- 
faloes; but two years later that animal stood forth unmis- 
takably as a cross-breed, one-quarter domestic. 
In judging Buffaloes, the finest animals are those with 
the greatest height of hump, heaviest and longest pelage on 
the neck and shoulders, shortest tails and horns curving with 
the shortest radius. 
I regard the American Buffalo species as now reasonably 
secure against extermination. This is due to the fact that it 
