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VOLUME XXVI— No. 9. 
NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1867. 
NEW SERIES— No. 248. 
THE AMERICAN B U F F A L 
Tlie Buffalo is the largest of American quad- 
rupeds, and one of the most interesting of the 
bovine family. When this country was first 
inhabited by the Europeans, this animal un- 
doubtedly ranged freely over the whole of 
what is now the United States, except, perhaps, 
those mountainous, swampy, or densely wooded 
regions of which the Elk and Moose arc the 
natural lords. The Buffalo is adapted to the 
open prairies, regions sparsely wooded and more 
or less dry, and to river bottoms, where lie can 
obtain grass, his natural food. Our ancestors, 
recognizing the close relation which the animal 
bears to their domestic cattle, and having heard 
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about the Buffaloes of the East, which they knew 
to be ox-like, but had never seen, gave him the 
name Buffalo, though in reality he bears even 
less resemblance to the Asiatic Buffalo than he 
dees to the ox. The name thus given has been 
popularly retained ; and we might as well try 
to change the name of the Indians, (who are, 
indeed, quite as little related to the Indians of 
India, after whom they were named), as to call 
the Buffalo, "Bison." The Bison.oncoof Europe, 
now nearly extinct, very closely resembles the 
American Buffalo, and if our magnificent rumi- 
nant should, of necessity, bear a borrowed 
name, that he should have been called Bison, is 
Stfotes, for ttie American Aobicttltubist, 
indisputably true. But he was not, and we do 
not use " Bison robes" in our sleighs, nor "Bi- 
son horn" knife-handles, and we never will. 
It is <km< Buffalo, though the pedants' Bison. 
The studies from which the above striking pic- 
ture was drawn, were taken by the artist upon 
the Plains. It strikes one as exaggerated, for 
the simple reason that few of the drawings of 
the Buffalo which we see, are made by artists 
who know them on their grazing grounds; 
they do not dare give that fullness and length 
to the shaggy hair of the head and jaw, nor tha 
towering flatness to the bump. On page 838, 
will be found other facts concerning the Buffalo. 
