The animal is the bison, and bears no resemblance whatever to the buffalo proper; but as the hunters of the far west, and, indeed, travellers generally, have adopted the misnomer, we bow to the authority of custom and adopt it too.

When daudling diligences drag Their lumbering length along no more That odd anomaly!or wag Gon call'd, or coacha misnomer That Cerberus three-bodied!