N-0.2.] COUES'S ORNITHOLOGICAL BIBLIOGEAPHY. 243 



1756. BRO■\v^'E, Patrick.— Contiuued. 



Fifty Copper-Plates : | lu Ayliich the most ciirions Productions are represented 

 of the natural Size, and | delineated immediately from the Objects. | — | By 

 Patrick Browne, M. D. | — | London: | Printed for the Author; and sold by 

 T. Osborne, audJ. Shipton, I inGray's-Inn. MDCCLA^. 1 voh Folio. 4p. Ih 

 (two titles, dedication, and list of subscribers), pp. y-viii (preface), 1-503, -f 

 1 1., pi. i, map, pll. 1-49. 



Chap. IV, Of Birds, pp. 46G-483, none of the plates. § I. Of the smallor fragivorous and 

 granivorons hii-ds with short and pointed conic bilhs, etc. : Hirundo 4, Loxia 1, FringUla 5, Mo- 

 tacilla 1. § 2. Of the smaller granivorons and vermivorous hu-ds with conic and moderately 

 slender lengthened bills, etc. : Columha 10, Tela 1, Tardus 2. § 3. Of birds of the larger 

 granivorons tribe wifh thick, conic, and moderately arched bills, proportioned limbs, and 

 divided claws : Pavo 1, Cmx 1, Meleagris 1, Gallus 4, Tetrao 1. ^ 4. Of birds that have strong 

 crooked bills and open claws, whose digits are generally furnished with strong arched nails: 

 Falco 3, Yiiltur 1, Psittaciis 11, Strix 2. § 5. Of birds that have largo straight bills, of a 

 length nearly eqnal to the middle digits, and moderately flatted above : Corvus 1, Crotoiyha- 

 (JUS 1, Picus 1, Barhtus 1. § 6. Of birds that have long .slender bills th.at arch and taper very 

 moderately to the top: Polytmus 4, lodus 1, Oriolus 1, Cuculus 1, Merops 1, Xanthonms 2. 

 § 7. Of birds whose bills are of a length with or longer than the middle digits, having long 

 legs, partly naked thighs, and divided claws, and living chiefly in Avatery places, though they 

 do not swim : Tringa 2, Numenius 1, Ardea 7. § 8. Of water-fowls, or bmls that pass a con- 

 siderable part of their time iipon the water: Fulica 4, Cohjmhus 1, Phcenicopierus I, Pele- 

 eanus 1, Ci/gnus 2, Anas G, Ancethetus 2, Lanes 4, Sterna 3, Alcyon 2. Under such classifica- 

 tion the number of species indicated by the figures given are treated, with numbered generic, 

 birt no specific names, with Latin diag-noses, some little synonymy, both Latin and vernacular, 

 and miscellaneous observations. It was a considerable ornithological treatise in its time, 

 freely cited by Brisson, Linnseus, Edwards, and others; and some of these descrix^tions, like 

 Sloane's, are the bases of species. — This is the orig. ed. ; there is another, 1789. 



1769. [Baxcroft, E.] An | Essay | on the | jSTatm-al History | of | Guiana, | In South 

 America. | Containing | A Descriiition of many Curious Productions | in the 

 Animal and Vegitable Systems | of that Country. | Together with an Account 

 of I The EeligioUj Manners, and Customs | of several Tribes of its Indian In- 

 habitants. I Insterspersed with | A Variety of Literary and Medical Observa- 

 tions. I In Several Letters | from | A Gentleman of the Medical Faculty [E. 

 Bancroft], | During his Residence in that Country. | — | — Adrespulcherrimas 

 ex tenebris ad lucem erutas alieno | labore deducimur. | Seneca, De brevitate 

 vitae, cap. xiv. | — | London, | Printed for T. Eecket and P. A. De Hondt | in 

 the Strand. MDCCLXIX. 1 vol. 16mo. Frontisp. (2-headed snake), 2 p. 11. 

 (title and dedication), pp. i-iv, 1-402, + 3 11. (contents and advts.). 



This anonymous work, by Dr. E. Bancroft, contains, pp. 1,')2-185, "the Description of Birds 

 inhabiting the aerial regions of Guian.a, which, for the .variety, vivacity and lustre of colours 

 that adorn their plumage, are no where excelled ". — There is a G-erman veffsion of same date. 



1769. Bancroft, E. Naturgeschichte | von | Guiana | in | Slid-Amerika. | worinn f 

 von der natiirlichen Besehatfenheit und den vor- | nehmsten Naturproducten 

 des Landes, ingleichen der Re- | ligion, Sitten und Gebriiuchen verschiedener 

 Stamme | der wildeu Landes-Einwohner, Nachricht | ertheilet wird. | — | In 

 vier Briefen. | Von | Eduard Bancroft, Esq. | — | Aus dem Englischen. | — | 

 [Quotation from Seneca.] | — | Frankfurt und Leipzig, | bey J. Dod.sley und 

 Compagnie, 1769. 1 vol. 16iuo. Frontispiece (2-headed snake), pp. i-x, 1 1,, 

 pp. 1-248, 1 1. 



Vogel, pp. 91-112. In dieser Ausgabe, die Arten die bereits in den Schrifteu des Hern* 

 Linn6, oder von andern SchriftsteUern beschrieben worden sind, sind mit den unter den 

 Text gesetzten linnaischen Triviahiamen, oder Benennung anderer Schriftsteller kennbarer. 

 gemacht worden. — Vergl. die Originalausgabe, 1769. 



1775. SoxNixi DE Maxoncour, C. N. S. Observation sur les Coqs et Ponies de 

 rAm^rique mMdiouale. <^Journ. de Physique., vi, 1775, pp. 128, 129. 



Xot seen : title from Cams and Engelmann.— The article doubtless refers to Cracidce or 

 Tinamidce. 



1775. SONNiNi DE Maxoxcour, C. ?s. S. Observation sur les Mareils ou Faisans da 

 la Guiaua. <C_Journ. de Phynique, v, 1775, pp. 34.5-350. 

 Not seen: title from Carus and 'En^ehannn.— Tinamidce? Oroddcei 



