1894 Brewer’s / E / 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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.