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"Alcedo, Antonio de"

 
 
Alcedo, Antonio de (detail)
   
1786-89
Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América: es á saber: de los reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo Reyno de Granada.
Madrid, B. Cano [etc.]: 5 vols.
–Only vol. 1 bears Cano's imprint; the other vols. bear those of M. Gonzalez (vols. 2, 4, 5) and B. Roman (vol. 3). Defines "peje buey", "peje judío" (a Honduran name for the manatee), and "manatí" (vol. 4; reprinted in Durand, 1983: 154-155).

Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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