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         | Description | Great Auk, Alca impennis, engraving | 
        
         | Source | Birds (The Cambridge Natural History), New York, London, MacMillan | 
        
         | Date | 1899 | 
        
         | Author | Arthur Humble Evans (1855-1943, author), George Edward Lodge (1860-1954, artist) | 
        
         | Permission | public-domain, published in the United States pre-1923 | 
        
         | Other versions | none | 
       
       
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