*».*.] COUES'S OENITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY PSITTACID^. 729 



Psittacidae. 



1733. DuvERNEY, J. G. Auatomie. ^ Hist.de VAcad. Boy. des Sd. de Pmis pour 

 I'auu^e 1682, i, 1733, pp. 344, 345. 



Sur le bee d'lm Perroquet, p. 344. 



1752. Cerati, .VAhU. [Observation sur Page auquel peuveut parvenir lerf Perro- 



quets. J < Hist, de VAcad. Boy. des Sci: pour I'ann^e 1747, 1752, pp. 57, 58. 

 TJne espece de Cacatua^pres de cent-vingt aim6es. 



1753. ISNARD, A. D. DE. [Observation sur un Perroquet qui pondit un oeuf en France. ] 



<^Hist. de VAcad. Boy. des Sci. pour I'ann^e 1727, 1753, pp. 25, 26. 

 1801-05. Levaillant.F. Histoire Naturelle i des Perroquets, | par Frangois Levail- 

 lant. I — I Tome premier [second]. | [Monogram.] | A Paris, | Chez Levrault 

 SchoeU et C.e, rue de Seine S. G. | - | Strasbourg, de I'imprimerie de Le- 

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

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

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

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



This is the earliest of the great Parrot Monographs; a splendid work, worthy associate 

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

 90 species of the famUy, were followed in 1837-38 by a third (supplementary) volume bv 

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

 about as many species was added by De Souanc6 in 1857-58, these together making bv far the 

 most extensive Iconography of the Parrots extant. 



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

 so bnUiantly figured numberless species of birds, many of them before unknown, he did not 

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

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

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

 functory credit that should have gone to LevaiUant. Buffon, Brisson and Levaillant are the 

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



The beautiful plates of this work were drawn from nature, engraved and printed in colors 

 under the direction of Bouquet. The text (as is not very often the case with Iconographies 

 like this) 18 much more than a brief description of the objects represented, occupying usuaUy 

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

 family. The whole work forms the corner-stone of the special literature of Psittandce. 



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. < Tilloch's PhUos. 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. U. Their habits, 

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

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

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

 tion of mcubation and life of several birds, and periods of gestation in several mammals in 

 comparison with the duration of their life. 



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



observations sur la dur^e de la vie des oiseaux. ^Journ.dePbys., Chim et 

 Hist. Nat. , liv, 1802, pp. 180-193. 



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

 amours, et la maniere d'61ever leurs petits. -Description de ces oiseaux.-ConJectures sur la 

 vie des perroquets, etc. ; "j'en ai vu un moi-meme qui 6toit depuis 75 ans dans la meme mai- 

 son. Table de la dur6e de I'incubation, et de la vie de plusieurs oiseaux. 



1803. Morozzo, C. L. Relation De deux f6tus produits par les memes perroquets qui 



dans 1'ann.Se 1801 out donn^ un petit, a Rome. <^Jonrn.de Phys., Oiivi., et 

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

 Bull. V, 4 14 



