"Sirenian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (Rhytina gigas).—The most northerly Sirenian that (so far as we know) ever inhabited the earth, lived on the Commander Islands in the northern end of Behring Sea, and was exterminated by man, for its oil and its flesh, about 1768. It was first made known to the world by Steller, in 1741, ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |
