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 discovered by him, 

 and called Rhytina Stelleri. The animal was twenty feet 

 long. 



exist. This picture is from Steller's drawing. 

 It is an enormous creature, some twenty feel 



Fig. 14.— Photograph of a skull of Steller's Sea-cow, from 

 a specimen in the Natural History Museum. 



long, and in shape something like a seal. But 

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



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