The interesting article, “Free-ranging in Maine/A Jefferson businessman devotes a 400-acre ranch to raising buffalo” (BDN, July 24-25), by Sharon Kiley Mack, with excellent photos by Gabor Degre, referred to the North American behemoths as buffalo; a common misnomer.

They are bison. The commonly domesticated water buffalo is Asiatic. The wild and dangerous Cape buffalo is African.

Otis D. Wolfe

Southwest Harbor