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"King, Phillip P."

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 King, Phillip P. (detail)
   
1827
Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. ... In two volumes ... Vol. II.
London, John Murray. Illus.
–On p. 183, the entry for Jan. 22, 1822, records that at Shark Bay: {"A seal of the hair species, like those of Rottnest Island, was seen on the rocks, probably of the same description that Dampier found in the maw of the shark; and also what was found by the French on Faure Island, which M. Peron supposed to be an herbiverous animal, and described as a dugon."}
 Dampier's record more likely also refers to a dugong. The footnote for the Peron citation reads "Peron, vol. ii. p. 227, et seq., and De Freycinet, p. 201."
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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