Attention is drawn to some hitherto overlooked paragraphs on the north-eastern Brazilian fauna hid- den in a historiographic account of Count Johan Maurits' govenorship (1637-1644), published by Caspar van Baerle (Barlaeus) in 1647, a year before the publication of Marcgrave & Piso's famous Historia naturalis Brasiliae and based on the same sources.

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Boeseman, M. (1994). A hidden early source of information on north-eastern Brazilian zoology. Zoologische Mededelingen, 68(12), 113–125.