| Show costly trophies the head bead of the musk ox is the most costly of mounted game heads beads and next Is the head bead of the bison or buffalo fine buffalo heads well mounted bring I 1 front from 10 to A head of however would be one exceptionally large aud and choice and a fine head can be i bought for fifteen years ago a well mounted buffalo head could be bought for from do 50 to the increase in price Is accounted for by the growing scarcity of the buffalo which has now practically illy disappeared from the united states the wood bison of the great slave lake region re ion of british north america which inhabit woodland or mountain districts are rather more numerous than the prairie buffaloes of this country but their numbers are limited and decreasing the wood bison is not so large as the prairie buffalo and its hair bair Is and very black the musk 0 ox x heads beads are held at SOO and upward oue one i ox head owned by a taxidermist in new yolk is valued at |
