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Volume 2 · 44 words · 1860 Edition

the genus Kingfisher, in Ornithology.

Antonio de, a Spanish geographer of the West Indies, whose work printed, in 5 vols. 4to, in 1786-9, was suppressed by the government. It was translated into English in 1812-15 by Mr G. A. Thompson; but now entirely superseded.