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TALKS ABOUT BIRDS 



easy for men, and so wherever the poor great 

 auks had a home, men found them out and 



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GREAT AUK OR GARE FOWL. 



killed them for food and feathers, and too 

 often in cruel sport, so that in time there 

 were only a few left, and these were all snapped 

 up for museums about half a century ago. 



