Abundance of the American bison, 387-393. 
Accidents to bison herds, 420. 
Affection, instinct of, in the bison, 433.
Agropyrum, 429. 
Alabama, 380. 
Albinism in the bison, 411. 
Allard, Mr. Charles, 461. 
Allen, Mr. J. A., on the American bison, 377, 381, 385, 387, 450, 480. 
“American Field,” quotation from, 433. 
  Fur Company, 488. 
Andrews, Mr. Harry, 502.
Andropogon provincialis, 427, 429.
  scoparius, 429. 
Argoll, Capt.  Sam’l, discovery of bison by, 375, 378. 
Arkansas, 375.
Aristida purpurea, 428
Ashe, Mr. Thomas, on the buffalo, 420, 485.
Astragalus molissimus, 429. 
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railway, 493, 496, 498, 499. 
Athabasca, buffaloes in, 523-524.
Atriplex canescens, 429. 
Audubon and Bachman, observations by, 400. 
Aurochs, or European bison, 394.

B.

Bailey, Lieut.  H. K., 545. 
Baird, Prof.  S. F., expedition for buffaloes, sent out by, 529. 
Baker & Co., Messrs. I. G., 411, 506. 
Bedson, Mr. S. L., buffalo-breeding by, 452, 454-456.
  herd owned by, 458, 460. 
Berlandier, Dr., on bison in Mexico, 381. 
Bismark Grove, Kans., buffaloes at, 461. 
Bison, the American.
  abundance of, 387-393.
  accidents to herds of, 420.
  adult bull of, 402-406.
  cow of, 406, 436.
  affection in the 433.
  albinism in the, 414.
  as a beast of burden, 457.
  bones of the, 445.
  breeding habits of, 425.
  season of, 396, 415.
  calf of the, 366-401, 425, 433.
  change of form in, 377, 394, 409.
  character of, 393.
  color of, 396-403.
  courage of, 432.
  cow of, 406-436. 
Bison, cross-breeding, 451-458.
  domestication of, 379, 451-458.
  fear in 432.
  food of, 426-429.
  habits of, 415-426.
    in running, 422, 430-431.
    in winter, 423.
    when wounded, 426.
  hair of, 449.
  “hide” of, 445, 505-507.
  horns of, 405, 406.
  hunting the, 405, 470, 478, 480, 483, 484, 536-542.
  meat of, 446, 448.
  mental capacity of, 429-434.
  migrations of, 389, 420, 424-429.
  monograph of, by J. A. Allen, 387.
  “mountain” form of, 407-412.
  mounted skins of, 396, 412, 546-548.
  pelage of, 412-414.
  protection of, possible, 435.
  rank of, with other Bovidæ, 393.
  reasoning powers of, 429.
  robe of, 441-415, 453, 470.
  shedding of pelage of, 412-414.
  size of, 405, 407.
  slaughter of the, 486-513. 
  Smithsonian expedition for, 529-546.
  “spike bull” of, 401.
  “wood” variety of, 407-412.
  “yearling” of, 401. 
Blackford, Mr. E. G., buffaloes presented by, 463, 527. 
Bones, buffalo, utilization of, 445. 
Boskowitz, Messrs. J. & A., 394.
Bouteloua oligostachya, 427, 428. 
Boyd, Mr. Irvin, 534, 537, 538, 540. 
Breeding of the buffalo, 390, 415, 425.