132 ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF 



Leguat clearly took it from one of the two following :— 



1. " Liure de plusieurs Animaux Inventez par Barlou Chez De Poilly 

 rue S. lacque a Timage S. Benoist." 



This work, bound in vellum, contains plates of birds and other animals, 

 some very brilliant, and finely executed; the one of Le Geant has been 

 copied, and is here given. 



From Watt's ' BibHotheca Britannica,' I find that not much was known 

 of Barlow. 



In the ' Nouvelle Biographic Universelle ' (tome 4i'ieme^ p. 518), we have 

 as follow^s : — 



" Barlow (Francis), graveur a Teau-forte, ne a Cambridge en 1646, mort 

 en 1702. On a de lui une edition des fables d'Esope (Londres, 1666, in-foL), 

 ornee de 110 figures dessinees et gravees par lui. Barlow a fait d'autres 

 sujets representant des animaux, et entendait fort bien ce genre, auquel il 

 s'etait exerce des son enfance (Strutt, History of Engravers).— Ch. Le Blanc, 

 Manuel de V Amateur dCestampes'' 



Thus it appears that in 1694, w^hen Leguat observed the bird. Barlow 

 would be 48 years of age. 



The engraving is signed '' H. le Roy fecit." Bryan's ' Dictionary of 

 Painters and Engravers ' states that some of the plates thus inscribed have 

 the addition " '^. 72. 1651." This plate has no date. 



2. I come now to '^Auium vivae icones, in 'cCS incisse & editse ab Adriano 

 Collardo," bound in vellum, with very brilliant and clever plates. 



Here the bird is represented in two attitudes ; and we are able by it to 

 add somewhat to Professor Schlegel's diagnosis, viz. that the tail-feathers 

 were white at the tip, the forehead also hghter ; but I see no frontal plate, as 

 Professor Schlegel does. The wing, though short, was sharp and pointed, 



