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of the Antilles.1 An animal thought by 
1It is charged by J. B. Dutertre that the 
bulk of this work was taken, errors included, 
from his own book on the Antilles, which appeared 
in 1654. Le Pére Labat (Voyage, 1722) also 
refers to the Sieur de Rochefort as a plagiarist 
from Dutertre. One of the rare edentates (Dasy- 
pus novemcinctus hoplites, G. M. Allen) figured 
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Eduard Seler? to be the opossum, by 
by these writers has been rediscovered, in the 
island of Grenada within the last few years by 
Glover M. Allen. See Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 
vol. liv, no. 6, 1911. 
2 Die Tierbilder der mexicanischen und der 
Maya-Handschriften.  Zeitschr. fiir Ethnologie, 
Jahrg. xli, 1909. 
Big game and other animal likenesses from the first encyclopzedia printed in our tongue, that of 
Bartholomew Anglicus, 1494. Some of the same animals are much better drawn in the Album of 
Villard de Honnecourt, a thirteenth century artist and architect 
