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Mr O. V. Davis, of Mandan. Dak. who has excellent opportunities for procuring many living animals at very small expense was requested to act as a sort of unofficial agent for us, and he consented to do so.  In general, correspondents were instructed that whenever any living animal was offered for sale of such a nature [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] and at such a price as to make it seem to [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ it seem [[/insertion]] desirable for us to purchase, we are to be advised of the circumstances, and our instructions waited for.

Inquiries in Montana, of thoroughly reliable and well informed persons brought to light the startling fact that hunters [[insertion]] ^ are [[/insertion]] living near the southern and eastern limits of the Yellowstone Park for the express purpose of killing the game that wanders or can be driven out of the Park limits, and by whose efforts the number of buffalo now left alive in the Park has been