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POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



AMERICAN BISON: BULL. 



Warning. — Visitors must never stand close beside a wire 

 fence or gate, because its elasticity between posts might 

 enable a charging animal to strike a person so standing and 

 inflict a serious injury, even though the fence or gate is not 

 in- the least affected by the blow. 



THE BISON RANGES, Nos. 51 and 52. 



Stretching from the Boston Road to the large Antelope 

 House (No. 50), and from the Rocking Stone to the southern 

 boundary, lies an open expanse of rolling meadow land, with 

 a total area of about twenty acres. It is almost surrounded 

 by shade-trees. Its easterly edge is a low-lying strip of rich 

 meadow, which lies under the shelter of the rocky, tree- 

 covered ridge that forms the natural retaining wall of the 

 higher plateau toward the west. This is the Bison Range. 

 It is the first enclosure seen on the left as the visitor enters 

 the Park from West Farms by way of the Boston Road. 



On the north side of the main range, near the Rocking 

 Stone, are the four corrals, and the Bison House. The 

 latter is a rustic hillside barn, eighty feet in length, with a 

 semicircular front, affording shelter and feed storage for 

 thirty-four buffaloes. The flat roof of the Buffalo House is 

 open to the public from the main walk, and has been speci- 

 ally designed as a convenient lookout over the main range 



