ANIMALS RECENTLY EXTINCT. 



627 



Although the skeleton just referred to was unfortunately of no use as 

 a specimen, sufficient bones were obtained to render possible the " ma- 

 king up " of a fairly complete skeleton. (Plate XCIX.) Unfortunately 

 there is one point which even the extensive series of bones collected 

 by Dr. Stejneger fails to determine, and that is the question as to 

 whether or not the rytiua had any bones in the hand. Steller, who 

 was an exceedingly paius-taking and accurate observer, expressly 

 states that there were none, and none have as yet been found ; while, 

 ou the other hand, the bones of the fore-arm possess well defined articu- 

 lar surfaces showing that bones were at least present in the wrist. 



With the exception of a rib from Attu no remains of rytina have 

 as yet been found at any localities save Bering and Copper Islands, 

 but it is probable that these were the last retreat of the survivors of a 

 once numerous race, and that they were discovered in time for man to 

 complete the extermination of a species that, from unkuown causes, 

 had long been on the wane. 



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Fig. 21. 



Steller's Sea Cow. 



Facsimile of figure on chart compiled by Lieutenant Waxell, navigator of Bering's party. 



Authorities. 



Symbols Sirenologic;»\ Joanne Frederico Brandt, Petropoli, Typis Acadeiniae Scieu- 

 tiarum. 1846. E scrip tis Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitauaj. 



Investigations relating to the date of the extermination of Steller's Sea Cow. Leon- 

 hard Stejneger. Proceedings II. S. National Museum, 1884, Vol. vn, 181-189. 



How the Great Northern Sea Cow (Rytina) became exterminated. Leonhard Stej- 

 neger. American Naturalist, Vol. xxi, No. 12, Dec. 1887, 1047-105 1. 



THE MAMO. 



(l)rcpanis pacifica Gmel.) 



If has long been expected that Drepanis pacifica, one of the most 

 beautiful and peculiar birds restricted in its range to the Sandwich 

 Islands, will have to be counted among the species which have become 

 extinct in recent times. And now that Mr. Scott Wilson has returned 

 from a thorough ornithological survey of the archipelago without hav- 



