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1733. DuvERNEY, J. G. Anatoiiiii-. < /list, de VAcad. Roy. den Sci. de Park pour 

 raunde 1682, i, 17:?:{, pi). :M4, :{4r.. 

 Sur le !)ec d'un Perroquot, p.H44. 



1752. Cerati, I'Abbe. [Olwervatioii sur I'llge aiiquel peuv«!iit parvenir les Perro- 



<|n»'ts. J <^Hist.dc VAcad. li'oi/.dcn Sci. pour ranii<?(' 1747, H'/i, pp. 57,58. 

 Uno espece de (Jacatiia — ]jr68 du (-out-viiigt aun6e8. 



1753. IsxARD, A. D. DE. [Observation sur mi Perroqnet (jui iioudit un ceuf eu Frauce.] 



<^ Hist, dc VAcad. Roy. den Sci. pour I'aimt^e 1727, 1753, pp. 25, 26. 

 1801-05. Lkvaillant, F. Histoire Naturellc ( des PiaToqucts, | par Frangois Levail- 

 laut. I — I Tome premier [second]. | [Monogram.] | A Paris, | Chez Levraiilt, 

 Schoell et C.*, rue de Seine S. G. | — | Strasbourg, de I'imprimerie de Le- 

 vrault. I An xii (1804). [1801-1805.] Pub. li^T. I-XXIV, titled and paged for 2 

 vols, folio. Vol. I, half-title, title, dedication, preface, each 1 leaf. Text 

 pp. 1-135, 1 leaf (table) ; pll. col'd 1-71. Vol. II, half-title, title, each 1 leaf. 

 Text pp. 1-111 ; pll. 72-139. 



This ia the earliest of the gi'eat Parrot Monographs; a splendid work, worthy associate 

 of the otheis from the same celebrated source. The two volumes of 139 plates, describing 

 90 species of the family, were followed iu 1837-38 by a third (supplementary) volume by 

 Bourjot St. llilaire, with 111 plates of 88 species; to which a fourth vol. of 48 plates and 

 about as many species was added by De S(iuimc6 iu 1857-58, these together making by far the 

 most extensive I(u>nography of the Parrots extant. 



It is to be .always regretted, for Levaillant's sake, that, while he described so carefully and 

 so brilliantly figured numberless simcies of birds, many of them before unknown, he did not 

 in any of his four great works use the systejn of nomenclature which would have entitled 

 him to full recognition. He is the real author of vt'ry many new species to which syste- 

 matic names were later applied by Vieillot and others, who consequently get all the per- 

 functory credit that should have gone to Levaillant. Butfon, Brisson and Levaillant are tlie 

 three great French names in ornithology which are not citable for species. 



Th(> beautiful plates of this work were dr:iwu from nature, engraved and printed in colors 

 under the direction of Bou<|uet. The text (as is not very often the case with Iconographies 

 like this) is much more than a brief description of the objects represented, occupying usually 

 more thiin one leaf to a plate, and going into many particulars concerning the species of this 

 family. The whole work foims the corner-stone of the special literature of Pgittacidce. 



1801. MOROZZO, [C. L. ] Letter from Count Morozzo to C. Lacepede, respecting a 



Parrot hatched at Rome ; together with some Observations on the duration 

 of the Life of these Birds. < Tilloclih PIiUos. Mag., xii, 1801, pp. 235-246. 



From Journ. de Physique, Ventose, An 10. 



I. History of the laying and incubation of a pair of Brazilian Parrots. II. Their habit.s, 

 attachment, mode of rearing their young. III. Description of cf , 9 , and young ( =^ Amazon 

 Parrot of Barrere, Fr. Equinox., p. 144). IV. Instances of some Parrots which have laid in 

 Europe. V. Coiyectures on the durixtion of the life of Parrots, including a table of the dura- 

 tion of incubation and life of several biids, and periods of gestation in several mammals, in 

 compari.son with the duration of their life. 



1802. Morozzo, [C. L.] Histoire d'un Perroquet n^ a Rome, suivie de quelques 



observations sur la durde de la vie des oiseanx. <^Journ. dc Phys., Chim.. et 

 Hist. .V«.<., liv, 1802, pp. 180-193. 



L'histoire de ces Perroquets, et celle de leur ponte et de leur incubation. — Leurs habitudes, 

 amours, et la m.ani^re d'61ever leurs petits.— Description de ces oiseaux. — Coiyectures sur la 

 vie des ])erToquets, etc. ; "J "en ai vu un moi-meme qui 6toit depuis 75 ans dans la m6me mai- 

 8on." Table de la dur6e de I'incubation, et de la vie de plusieurs oiseaux. 



1803. Morozzo, C. L. Relation De deux fdtus produits par les memes perroquets qui 



dans I'annde 1801 ont dound un petit, a Rome. <^Joxirn.de Phyn., Ciiiin., et 

 Hist. Nat. Ivi, 1803, pp. 347-350. 

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