NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 



Museum by skeletons, skulls and skins, in addition to the fine 

 group which forms so conspicuous an exhibit in the North Ameri- 

 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 187 1 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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