EXTINCT ANIMALS 



islands where it existed, knocked it on the head 

 and ate it, and in about ten years it ceased to 



Fig. 13. — Steller's drawing of the Sea-cow discovei-ed by him, 

 and called Rhytina SteUeri. The animal was twenty feet 

 long. 



exist. This picture is from Steller's drawing. 

 It is an enormous creature, some twenty feet 



Fig. 14. — Photograph of a skull of 8telier"s Sea-cow, from 

 a specimen in the Natural History Museum. 



long, and in shape something like a seal. But 

 it is not in reality a seal or a whale, but belongs 



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