NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 



The hide hunters were already among them, and this was one of 

 the years ol their greatest havoc. Three years later these same 

 plains were covered with the bleaching carcasses of these hundreds 



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of thou j, from which merely the hides had ] 



removed and the b In [873 similar 



witnessed in the valley of the Velio and hei in, a 



-. only the 1 mained, 



