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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 11

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During the last few decades we have seen the extinction of two interesting species once extremely abundant—the American bison (in its wild state) and the passenger pigeon. In Africa, we are told, the white rhinoceros is practically extinct; the bluebok has been totally destroyed by the Cape farmers; the quagga is now represented only by stuffed specimens, and the sable . and pronghorned antelope and the eland are on the brink of the gulf. Another animal whose days are numbered is the American mountain sheep, now, nearly reduced to vanishing point, although the President of Mexico is said to be endeavouring to protect, the few remaining. In China the Manchurian deer were- killed in the Boxer rebellion in 1900, the rebels taking for food even the 200 animals in the Imperial Park at Peking. This deer is now totally extinct in Asia. Our own generation has witnessed what may be taken to be the end of the muskoxen animals,, which even recently roamed in countless thousands in thArctic North.