The Numbers of the American Bison

Abstract

IT is eleven years since Mr. Hornaday published his interesting account of the extermination of the American Bison—a work that was fully noticed in these columns at the time. The author then estimated the number of living survivors of the species at 1091, of which 256 were in captivity and 835 running wild in British North America, the Yellowstone Park, and a few other localities. Recently Mr. Mark Sullivan has attempted to make a fresh census of the species, the results of which form the subject of a long article published in the Boston Evening Transcript of October 10.