Note 104 — {247} CHAP. VIII.

Buffalo. This is the earliest notice of the northern race of the bison, the so-called Wood Bison, Bison bison Athabasca Rhoads. It was formerly very numerous and inhabited an extensive region (see Preble's "North Am. Fauna," No. 27, p. 144, 1908), but is now reduced to a few small herds, aggregating a few hundred individuals, which roam over a limited area south of Great Slave Lake.—E. A. P.