10 HOOFED ANIMALS 
to a grand attack upon the northern herd. In October, 1883, 
the last thousand head were killed in southwestern Dakota by 
Sitting Bull and about a thousand Indians from the Standing 
Rock agency, leaving only the Yellowstone Park bunch of two 
hundred head, a band of forty in Custer County, Montana, 
and the Great Slave Lake herd of about five hundred head. 
One of the largest Buffaloes ever measured by a naturalist 
is the old bull which was shot (by the author) on December 
6, 1886, in Montana, and which now stands as the most 
prominent figure in the mounted group in the United States 
National Museum. A very good picture of him adorns the 
ten-dollar bill of our national currency. His dimensions in 
the flesh were as follows: 
FT IN. 
Height at shoulders. ......0.0.0 cece cece eee ee ees cee 5 8 
Length of head and body, to root of tail............0..... 10 Q 
Depth: of chesthc2e sues aoehicaen ee dyceied ats aoe ee ee 3 10 
Girth, behind fore legs......0 0.0200 Foe ce eee 8 4 
Circumference of muzzle, behind nostrils. ... ..... .... Q 2 
Length of tail vertebrae. ........ 0.00.0 eee 1 3 
Length of hair on shoulders...............0002 cece eens 6% 
Length of hair on forehead.........0 2.2... c eee eee 1 4 
Length of chin beard............ 000 c cece eet eens 11% 
Estimated weight........0 0.0... eee c cece teen eee eee 2,100 pounds 
The shoulder height of wild Buffaloes of various ages, 
and both sexes, as taken by me on the Montana Buffalo range, 
are as follows: 
FT. IN, 
Male calf, 4 months old. . 1... . 2. cece ccc ce cece nee Q 8 
Male one year old... ... ccc cece cent ee cee e ee eees 3 5 
Male two years old... 1... ccc ce cee 4 2 
Male five years old (average size)........... 0.0 eee ee eee 5 6 
Female, three years old........ 0... cece een eens 4 5 
Female, eight years old........ 0... ccc cee cee eee ees 4 10 
