A cloak of the skin of the greatauk would bring $8,000 or $10,000.
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He reminded Lilly of a greatauk, something alcidine in the thin cheeks with the mouth cutting so widely toward the ears.
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On Funk Island, a favorite breeding-place, the greatauk was exterminated in 1840, and in Iceland in 1844.
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They do, however, take place, since within comparatively few years whole species have completely disappeared; for example, the greatauk and the passenger pigeon.