Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Missing Birds. [ARTICLE]

Missing Birds.

Ten species of North American birds are put down by the ornithologists as “missing.” Of these, two—the great auk and the Labrador duck —are believed to have become extinct within the memory of living men. Perhaps representatives of the other eight will yet be found. Most of them are very diminutive.