MODERN ERA. 



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occur in the shell-heaps of Maine, Wyman having found seven specimens of the hu- 

 merus, besides other bones. With these are bones of other species, but of none that are 

 extinct, and also fragments of rude pottery, and some bone-implements. 



A species of Manatee, Rytina Stelleri Cuv., known in the last century on the Arctic 

 shores of Siberia, is supposed to be now extinct. 



Fig. 957. 



Dodo, with the Solitaire in the background. 



The Aurochs (Bison prisons) of Europe, one of the cotemporaries of the old Elephant 

 {E. primigtnius), would have long since been exterminated from Europe, but for the 

 protection of Man. Though once abundant, it is how confined on that continent to the 

 imperial forests of Lithuania, belonging to the Russian Czar. It is said to exist also iu 



