NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 
Museum by skeletons, skulls and skins, in addition to the fine 
group which forms so conspicuous an exhibit in the North Amer1- 
can Hall. Indeed, the Museum is to be congratulated 
on having not only the finest Bison group in the world, 
but a large reserve stock of specimens of this rapidly 
disappearing type, which but a short time ago existed in seemingly 
American 
Bison. 
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AMERICAN BISON 
Cow and calf from group in American Museum 
Specimens presented by Col. W. F. Cody 
inexhaustible numbers. In the summer of 1871 the author saw 
on the plains of western Kansas Buffaloes by the hundred thou- 
sand, if not by the million. As far as the eye could reach, the 
plains, on certain occasions, were literally black with Buffaloes. 
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