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Tj O . Dii.vwx nr W. .T. II.vyes, X. A., from Life Studies, for the American Agriculturist. 
Fin- Run,ill) ti,(. l.ir;reft,t of American quatl- 
rupeds, and one of the most interesting of the 
bovine fanil}'. “W hen this country was first 
inhabited by the Europeans, thi.s animal un¬ 
doubtedly rangi-d freely over the ivhole of 
■vvliat is now the Lnited States, except, perhaps, 
those mountainous, swampy, or densely wooded 
regions of n-hich the Elk and Moo^e are the 
natural lord.s. The RufTalo is adaptofl to the 
open prairie.s, regions sparsely M'ooded and more 
or less dry, and to river bottom^, where he can 
obtain grass, liis nr',I.u! :;l food. Our ancestors, 
recognizing the close relation M-ldeli the animal 
bears to their dn; ii'siii', cattle, and liavinir lieard 
about llie Buffaloes of thcEust, ■which they knew 
to be o.\-like, hut had never seen, gave him the 
name Buffalo, tliough in reality he bears even 
less resemblance to the Asiatic Buffalo tlian he 
does to the ox. Tlie 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,once of Europe, 
now nearly extinct, very closely resembles the 
American Buffalo, ami if our magnificent rumi¬ 
nant should, of necessity, hear a borrowed 
name, that ho should have been called Bison is 
indisputably true. But lie was not, and we do 
not use “Bison robes” in our sleighs, nor “Bi¬ 
son horn” knife-handles, and we never will. ^ 
It is our Buffalo, though the pedants' Bison. J 
The studies from wliicJi llio 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 tlieir grazing grounds; 
they do not dare give that fullness and lengtii 
to the shaggy hair of the head and jaw, nor the 
towering flatness to the hump. On page 323, 
will be found otlier facts concerning the Buffalo. 
