248 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. l^'"^"'*'- 



1809. AzAEA, F. DE. Voyages | dans | I'Am^riqne M^ridlonale, | par Don Fffix de 

 Azara, | Commissaire et Commandant des limites Espagnoles de Paraguay | 

 depuis 17^1 jusqnjen 1801 ; | Contenant la description g^ographique, politique 

 et civUe du | Paraguay et de la rivifere de La Plata ; I'histoire de la dficou- | 

 verte et de la conqu6te de ces contr^es; des details nom- | brenx sur leux his- 

 toire naturelle, et snr les peuples sauvages | qui les haljiteut; le r^cit des 

 moyens employes par les | J&uites pour assuj^tir et civiliser les indigenes, 

 etc. I Pulslife d'aprfes les manuscrits do I'auteur, | avec une notice sur sa vie 

 et ses Merits, | Par C. A. "Walckenaer; | enrichis de notes par G. Cuvier, | Sec- 

 retaire perp^tuel de la classe des Sciences Physiques de I'lnstitut, etc. | Suivis 

 de I'Mstoire naturelle des Oiseaux du Paraguay et de La Plata, par | le m6me 

 auteur, traduite, d'aprfes I'original espagnol, et augment^e | d'un grand nombre 

 de notes, par JI. Sonnini ; | Accompagn^s d'un atlas de vingt-cinq planches. | 

 Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. | — | Paris, | Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraiie, | Rue 

 du Pont-de-Lodi, n° 3. | 1809. 4 vols, small 8vo, and large 4to atlas. Vols. 

 I, II, no ornithology. Vol. UI, 2 p. U., pp. i, ii, 1^79. Vol. IV, 2 p. 11., pp. 

 1-380. Atlas, 4to, same date and imprint, titled Voyages | dans | L'Am^riqne 

 mgridionale, | par Don F61ix de Azara. | — | Collection de planches. 2 U. of 

 text, pll. XXV, of which xxii-xxv are of birds. 



In tills Frencli "veraion by Sonnini, mQch better known th.in the original. Azara's Aptmra- 

 mientoa para la bistoria natural de log P.ixaros de Paiagiiay, et c. , are contained in the tbiid and 

 foorthvoltunea; fonrbirda are figured in the atlas. Sonnini's translation ia conaidered "meri- 

 torious ", but haa ita abort-comings. See eapecially Hartlanb'a SystematiscfuT Index, 1847. 



1809. Molina, G. I. The | Geographical, | Natural, and Civil | History of ChUL | 



Translated from the original Italian of | the Abbe Don J. Ignatius Mo- 

 lina. I — I To ■which are added, | Notes | liom the Spanish and French ver- 

 sions, I and I two Appendixes, | by the English editor; | [etc., 5 lines.] | — | 

 In two volumes. | — | Vol. I [II]. | — | [London :] printed for Longman, 

 Hurst, Eees, and Orme. | Paternoster-row. | — | 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, 

 pp. i-xx, l-321-)-lin. advt., map. A'ol. II, pp. i-xii, 1-3^5-f liU. advt. 



Seethe original edition, 1782. Tbisia .•ipparentlyreprintedfi-omtbeiIiddletown(Conn.|ed, 

 of 1808, q. v., with which itia aubatantially identical in the ornithological m.itter. Birds: ToL 

 I, Chap. IV, aect. V, pp. 191-222. and pp. 282-284 ; see nlso p. 317. But the Engliah editor (a^ 

 I may at.ate for others than omithologiats) has added occasional not^-s over the initials E. E., 

 and subjoined a fnii;her elucidation of the language of the Arancanoa, from Falkners Pata- 

 gonia, besides adding the two appendisea mentioned in the title. 



1810. Ledru, a. -P. Voyage aux lies de Tenferiffc, la Trinite, Saint Thomas, .^aintc- 



Croix et Porto-Ricco, . . . &c. Par Andre-Pierre Ledru . . . &c. Paris. 

 1810. '2 vols. 16mo. [See complete title beyond. Addenda.] 



Xot seen : cited from Ihis, 1859, pp. 374, 375. il. Ledm was one of the naturalists (with 

 Hang^) of the expedition comm.inded by Captain Baudin in 1796-98. His -work contains ( voL 

 n, pp. 36 et seq.) an "Eaaai sur rhiatoire naturelle dea lies danoises"', by M. S^'nnini, in which 

 ornithology is represented by a variety of m'atter, some of it -wild. 

 1810. Molina, G. I. Saggio | suUa Storia Natui-ale del Chili | di | Gio : Ign.ozio Mo- 

 lina I Seconda Edizione | accresciuta e arricchita di una nuova carta geogrs^ 

 fica 1 e del ritratto dell' autore. | ,,Hic vir assidnum, atqne alienis mensibns 

 aestas, | „ Bis gravidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis aibos . . . . | ,,Haec e.^dem 

 argenti rivos, aerisque metalla | ., Osteudit venis, atqne auro plnrima fluxit | 

 Viig. Georg. lib. 2. | Bologna 1810. | — | Tipografia de" fratelli Masi e comp. | 



1 vol. Large4to. Title, backed blank, frontisp. (poi-traitof Molina), dedicarion 



2 U. , preface pp. )( i )( - )( v )(, p. vi blanlc ; pp. )( 1 )( - )( 306 )( ; 11. eiTata ; map. 

 The SLCond Italian edition (original edition, 17f2) ; but there had meanwhUe been sundry 



others, in Spanish, lYench, German, and English, qq. vv. Eespectmg the present, the author 

 says in the preface:— "11 Saggio sulla Storin naturale del Eegno del CbiU vennto alia luce 

 neU' anno 17S2 non era altro che un succinto Compendio deUe Osservazioni da me futte cerca 

 gli Esseri oppartenenti ai tre Eegui dclla Xai ura, che si ritrovi.no in quel Paese. . Tutti 



le Nazioni colte dell' Europa lo veUero tradotto nelle loro liugue. E'ediaione origiuale fu ben 

 presto amaltita. P.iroccbi dilettanti ili storia naturale, che non potevauo piii provv,.,l,.,^,.ne 

 s'aecorilaiono a fame una ristampa, e mi signlflcarono il desiderio oho avevan di airicchirla di 

 un' appendice, so io fossi in grado di somminiatrar loro i materiali necessarj."' 



