Extinct Birds Part 2

(See _Aphanapteryx bonasia_.)

1640. PERE BOUTON. Relation de l'etabl. des Francais dep. 1635, en l'ile Martinique, l'vne des antilles de l'Amerique.

(Describes, among other birds, the Aras and Parrots of the island of Martinique.)

1646. BONTEKOE. Journ. of te gedenckw. beschr. van de Ost. Ind. Reyse.

Haarlem 1646.

(On p. 6 mention of the Reunion Dodo.)

1655. WORM. Museum Wormianum.

(On pp. 300, 301, lib. III, description and figure of a Great Auk from the Faroe Islands.)

1658. HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET MORALE DES ILES ANTILLES DE L'AMERIQUE.

Enrichie de pleusieurs belles figures des Raretez les plus considerables qui y sont d'ecrites. Avec un vocabulaire caraibe.

Rotterdam 1658.

(The t.i.tle-page has no author's name, but according to Pere du Tertre the author is "Le Sieur de Rochefort, Ministre de Rotterdam." Contains important notes on former bird-life on the Antilles.)

1665. The same. Second Edition. Rotterdam 1665. {xvii}

1658. BONTIUS. Gulielmi Pisonis Medici Amstelaedamensis de Indiae Utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim. Third Part: Jacobi Bontii, medici civitatis Bataviae Novae in Java Ordinarii, Historiae Natur. et Medici Indiae Orientalis libri s.e.x.

(On p. 70 an excellent figure of the Dodo. Caput XVII. Appendix: De Dronte, aliis Dod-aers.)

1667. DU TERTRE. Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois. Tome II, contenant l'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 1667.

(On p. 246. Traite V. Des animaux de l'air. s. I, Les Arras. s. II, Des Perroquets. s. III, Des Perriques.)

1668. HISTORISCHE BESCHREIBUNG DER ANTILLEN INSELN IN AMERICA GELEGEN.

In sich begreiffend deroselben Gelegenheit, darinnen befindl. naturl.

Sachen, sampt deren Einwohner Sitten und Gebrauchen. Von dem Herrn de Rochefort, zum zweiten mahl in Franzosischer sprach an den Tag gegeben, nunmehr aber in die Teutsche ubersetzet. Frankfurt 1668.

(Translation of the second edition of Rochefort's book.)

*1668. CARRE, Voyage des Indes Orientales.

(Page 12 the "Solitaire." Cf. _Didus solitarius_.)

1668. J. MARSHALL. Memorandums concerning India.

(In the article on Mauritius occurs a mention of Geese.)

1674. PERE DUBOIS. Les Voyages faits par le Sieur D.B. aux Isles Dauphine ou Madagascar, et Bourbon, ou Mascarenne, es annees 1669-70-71-72.

(Of this extremely rare work I possess a beautiful copy, together with the map of Sanson belonging to it.)

(On p. 168 we find "Description de quelques Oyseaux de l'Isle de Bourbon," with figures of the "Geant" and "Solitaire.")

1696. THEVENOT, M. MELCHISEDEC. Relations de divers voyages curieux qui nont point este' publie'es. Nouvelle Edition. Vol. I, II, 1696.

(A very interesting collection of ancient voyages, translated into French. In Vol. II is a translation of Bontekoe's travels to the "East Indies," with figures of the Dodo and other interesting notes.)

1707. LEGUAT, FRANCOIS. Voyages et Avantures de Francois Leguat, et de ses Compagnons, en deux Isles desertes des Indes Orientales. Londres 1707.

1708. LEGUAT, FRANCIS. A New Voyage to the East Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions. Containing their adventures in two desert islands. London 1708.

(Valuable notes on the birds of Rodriguez and Mauritius.)

1707. SLOANE, HANS. A Voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christofers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Insects, Birds, Reptiles, etc. Vol.

I, 1707; vol. II, 1725.

(Gives most valuable notes on the birds, including the Goatsucker, _Aestrelata_ and Parrots.)

1722. LABAT, JEAN BAPTISTE. Nouveau Voyage aux Iles de l'Amerique contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays. Paris 1722. 6 vols.

(In Vol. II, chapter VIII, the different species of Parrots are described, and it is stated that each island had three kinds, viz., an "Aras," a "Perroquet" and a "Perrique," evidently meaning a Macaw, an Amazona and a Conurus.)

1742. Nouvelle Edition. 8 vols.

{xviii} 1752. MOEHRING. Avium Genera.

(In this ominous work, which, through an article by Poche in Zool.

Anz. 1904, has recently caused so much quite unnecessary disturbance among nomenclatorists--cf. Hartert, Zool. Anz. 1904, p.

154, and Proc. IV. Int. Orn. Congress, pp. 276-283. The Dodo is mentioned under the name "Raphus.")

1763. L'ABBE DE LA CAILLE. Journal Historique du Voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-esperance.

(Some birds from Mauritius mentioned, but no descriptions.)

1773. VOYAGE A L'ISLE DE FRANCE, a l'isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne Esperance, etc. Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature et sur les hommes. Par un officier du roi. Neuchatel 1773.

1775. A voyage to the island of Mauritius, etc. By a French Officer.

(Translation of the above).

(Lettre IX, page 67, treats of the "Animals natural to the isle of France.")

1782. SONNERAT. Voyage aux iles orientales et a la Chine. Two volumes, 1782.

(In Volume II, on plate 101, opposite page 176, the extinct _Alectroenas nitidissima_ is figured, under the name of "Pigeon hollandais.")

*1783 (?) CALLAM. Voyage Botany Bay.

(According to Gray _Notornis alba_ is mentioned under the name of "White Gallinule.")

1786. SPARRMANN. Museum Carlsonianum I.

(On pl. 23 _Pomarea nigra_ Sparrm.)