CENOZOIC TIME — QUATERNARY. 



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Iceland, in 1844. The bones occur in great numbers, on the shores of Iceland, Greenland, 

 and Denmark, showing that it was once a common bird ; and its remains have been found 

 also on the coasts of Labrador, Maine, and eastern Massachusetts. They occur in the 

 shell-heaps of Maine, Wyman having found seven specimens of the humerus, 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. 



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Dodo, with the Solitaire in the background and an extinct Night Heron to the right. 



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

 shores of Siberia, is supposed to be now extinct. 



The Aurochs {Bison priscus) of Europe, one of the cotemporaries of the old Elephant 

 (Elephas primigenius) , would have long since been exterminated from Europe, but for 

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



