Natural history of animals; . Fikr. 68. —Musk Ox. lives in herds, sometimes numbering nearly one hun-dred. It feeds upon grass in the mild season, and in CUD-CHEWERS. 49 winter upon mosses and lichens, from the steep sidesof hills blown bare by the winds, and up which itclimbs with agility. In spite of its name, it is morenearly related to the Sheep than to the true Ox. The Bison, or American Buffalo. The Bison, or Buffalo, of the western plains, is thelargest quadruped of America, being of the size of alarge Ox. It is covered with thick dark hair, that about. Fig. 69. — Bison, or American Buf
Natural history of animals; . Fikr. 68. —Musk Ox. lives in herds, sometimes numbering nearly one hun-dred. It feeds upon grass in the mild season, and in CUD-CHEWERS. 49 winter upon mosses and lichens, from the steep sidesof hills blown bare by the winds, and up which itclimbs with agility. In spite of its name, it is morenearly related to the Sheep than to the true Ox. The Bison, or American Buffalo. The Bison, or Buffalo, of the western plains, is thelargest quadruped of America, being of the size of alarge Ox. It is covered with thick dark hair, that about. Fig. 69. — Bison, or American Buffalo. the head and shoulders being long and shaggy. Atthe time of the discovery of America, the Buffalo wasfound even to the shores of the Atlantic. It was notuncommon to see the prairies covered with Buffaloes asfar as the eye could reach; travelers have passed throughherds of them for days in succession, with scarcely anyapparent lessening of their numbers. Their paths re-sembled traveled roads; and as their routes, in mostcases, extended in a straight line from one convenientcrossing-place of a river or ravine to another, taking NAT. HIST. AN.— 4 50 VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS. springs or streams in their course, they used to serve ashighways of travel to the explorers of the plains. The Buffalo is now nearly extinct. At present thereare only a few hundred alive, most of them in Yellow-stone Park. As soon as the railways were built acrossthe continent they were rapidly exterminated, beinghunted for their skins. Oxen. The true Ox is known only as a dome
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