THE BUFFALO. 



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slhoulders, while the horns are of about the same length. J n 

 colour they vary greatly, changing according to the season of 

 tllie year. 



THE BISON, COMMONLY CALLED THE BUFFALO IN AMERICA. 



Throughout the wide-extending prairies of North America, 

 from north to south to the east of the Rocky Mountains, vast 

 herds of huge animals — with shaggy coats and manes which 

 hang down over the head and shoulders reaching to the ground, 

 and short curling horns, giving their countenances a ferocious 

 aspect — range up and down, sometimes amounting to ten 

 thousand head in one herd. They commonly go by the name 



THE BISON. 



of buffaloes, but are properly called bisons. Clothed in a 

 dense coat of long woolly hair, the buffalo is well constituted 

 to stand the heats of summer as well as the cold of the snowy 

 plains in the northern regions to which he extends his 

 wanderings. 



!>ot us look at him as he stands facing us on his native 



