Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 109
Sailors landed here and killedthem by the thousand for the oil to be obtainedfrom their bodies; by 1844 or 1845, they had beenexterminated here and in Iceland. With the na-tives it was an article of food, and it was easilycaught on land. Another circumstance which nodoubt hastened its extinction is… … LABRADOR DUCKS. 72 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 73 many eggs. An egg is worth about $1200 at auc-tion. The Labrador duck bred in Labrador, and wasfound on our Atlantic coast south to ChesapeakeBay. For many years before its final disappear-ance, it had not been a common duck; about1875, it…
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