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Show GREAT AUK'S VALUABLE EGG I i One Recently Sold nt Auction In Lon- , don for 3)1,500 Bird Is Now I Extinct. An egg of the gTeat auk, or gare-fowl, gare-fowl, a. bird now eitlnot, wan sold at auction In London for a sum equivalent equiva-lent to ?1.600. Not all great auk's eggs are alike In length thoy vary from four and one-eighth one-eighth Inches to flvo Inchea. The greater number found have a white ground, but other are of various ehades of buff, in some cases the 8 markings are spots, shown in blotches or lines H It it said that no living- nak has bn een sine 1844. The birds were ex- terminated by the ruthless traffic in their eggs aad akras, although their I numbers, especially on the Newfound- I land and Labrador coasts, where onco they were very numerous, were groat-ly groat-ly reduced by their wholesale slaught- r for food The most remarkable charaoteristlc of the great atfk was It Inability to fly. It wings were scarcely more tluvn flns. which aided the bird In swmi-nlBc. |