Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Descourtilz, Michel Étienne | ||
| 1809 | Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations faites sur les trois règnes de la nature, dans plusieurs ports de mer français, en Espagne, au continent de l'Amérique Septentrionale, à Saint Yago de Cuba, et à St.-Domingue, où l'auteur devenu le prisonnier de 40,000 noirs révoltés, et par suite mis en liberté par une colonne de l'armée française, donne des détailes circonstanciés sur l'expédition du général Leclerc.... Paris, Dufart, père (3 vols.): Vol. 2: 1-470. Illus. –Account of manatees and manatee hunting (with nets, guns, and harpoons) on Santo Domingo, where the manatees can be ambushed as they come out of the rivers at noon to graze in the fields of maize and sweet potatoes (2: 274-276)! The author notes with regret that, despite having followed these instructions several times, he never succeeded in shooting one. | ||
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Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
| x | 1809 | Descourtilz, M.E. (TMM; San Domingo; 2: 274-276.) |
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
| x | 1809 | Descourtilz, M.E. (San Domingo; 2: 274-276.) |
West Indies
(SEE ALSO: Caribbean Sea; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico)
(SEE ALSO: Caribbean Sea; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico)
| x | 1809 | Descourtilz, M.E. (TMM; San Domingo; 2: 274-276.) |