Thylacine, "an animal of the past"
1863 CE • Tasmania, Australia
“When the comparatively small island of Tasmania becomes more densely populated, and its primitive forests are intersected with roads from the eastern to the western coast, the numbers of this singular animal will speedily diminish, extermination will have its full sway, and it will then, like the Wolf in England and Scotland, be recorded as an animal of the past.”
As cited in Paddle, Robert N. The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the History and Extinction of the Thylacine (Oakleigh, Vic.: Cambridge UP, 2000).
Image: Mr. Weaver bags a tiger, image unattributed, possibly taken by Victor Prout, Tasmania,
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