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Atlantic coasts of North America that in 1540 a voyager 

 loaded his two vessels with dead Garefowls in half an hour 

 and had, besides the birds eaten fresh, four or five tons to 



Fig. 34. Garefowl or Great Auk (once a native of Scotland, now extinct) with its 

 solitary egg. (From example in Royal Scottish Museum.) J nat. size. 



put in salt, should have been exterminated there in the early 

 years of the nineteenth century? 



