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Bison, or the Canadian Elk to that of the Old World. Its occurrence in America is not 

 more startling than that of the Musk-sheep in the South of France. But it extends the 

 ancient range of the Cave Lion eastwards through Russia and the vast steppes of 

 Northern Asia, across Bhering's Straits into the great treeless barren grounds of North 

 America, and thence southwards into the zone of the woods, and over the great prairies 

 of the Bison, down to the almost tropical region of the Gulf of Mexico. Subsequent 

 investigation will, doubtless, prove its former existence in the intermediate area just as 

 in the parallel case of the Mammoth. What we know of the living Carnivores, such as 

 the Wolf, Fox, and Tiger, would naturally lead us to expect those found in a fossil state 

 to have a far wider range than any of the Herbivora. 1 



1 See ' Introduction,' p. xlix. 





