Brewer's: Extinct Species

[since the time of man]. The dodo, great auk, quagga, sea-cow, and white rhinoceros. Getting very rare: the bison, the Carolina paraket, the giraffe, and the passenger pigeon once common enough.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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