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LITERATURE REFERRING TO EXTINCT BIRDS. 



1580 or 90. Collaert, Adrian. Avium 

 vivae icones, in aes incisae & editae 

 ab Adriano Collardo. 



(On one of the plates is figured the "Avis 

 Indica." This figure seems to have been the 

 original of the representations in Dubois' and 

 Leguat's works.) 



1601. Jacob Cornelisz Neck. Het tweede 



Boek, Journael oft Dagh-register, 



inhoudende een warachtig verhael, 



etc., etc. Middelburch, Anno 1601. 



(On picture No. 2, page 7, the Dodo is 

 figured and described as follows : " Desen 

 Voghel de is soo groot als een Swaen, gaven 

 hem de naem Walchvoghel, want doen wy 

 de leckere Duyfkens ende ande cleyn ghevog- 

 helte ghenoech vinghen, doen taelden wy 

 niet meer naer desen Voghel." This appears 

 to be the first mention of the Dodo in 

 literature.) 



1605. Clusius. Caroli Clusii Atrebatis . . . 

 Exoticorum libri decern : Quibus 

 Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum 

 historiae describuntur. Ex Officina 

 Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1605. 



(On p. 100 van Neck's Dodo is reproduced, 

 on p. 103 the Great Auk, sub nomine " Mergus 

 Americanus.") 



1606. De Bry. Achter Theil der Oriental- 

 ischen Indien, begreiffend erstlich ein 

 Histor. Beschr. d. Schiffahrt, so der 

 Adm. Jacob von Neck ausz Hollandt, 

 etc., etc. Frankf. 1606. 



(Figure and mention of the Dodo.) 



1619. Jacob Cornelisz Neck. Historiale 

 Beschryvinghe, Inhoudende een 

 waerachtich verhael vande veyse 

 ghedaen met acht Schepen van 

 Amsterdam, etc., etc. Amsterdam, 

 1619. 



(Evidently another edition of Neck's voyage 

 of 1 60 1. On page 5 and on Picture No. 2 

 (page 7), which is the same as in the other 

 editions of Neck's voyage, the Dodo is 

 described. There is also a French edition 

 of 1601.) 



1625. Castleton. Purchas his Pilgrimes. 



In five books. 



(On p. 331, in chapter XV., first mention 

 of the Reunion Dodo.) 



1626. Sir Thomas Herbert. A relation of 

 some years' Travaile. 



(First mention of Aphanapteryx bonasia.) 



1635. Nieremberg. Joannis Evsebii Nie- 



rembergii Historia Naturae, 



maxime peregrinae, librisXVI distincta. 

 In quibus rarissima Naturae arcana, 

 etc., etc., etc. Antverpiae MDCXXXV. 



(Clusius' account and figure of the Dodo 

 reproduced on pp. 231, 232. On p. 237 the 

 Great Auk (" Goifugel ") mentioned). 



and 1651. Cauche. Relations veritables 

 et curieuses de l'isle de Madagascar. 

 (Two editions.) 



(See Aphanapteryx bonasia.) 



Pere Bouton. Relation de l'etabl. 

 des Francais dep. 1635, en Tile 

 Martinique, l'vne des antilles de 

 l'Amerique. 



(Describes, among other birds, the Aras 

 and Parrots of the island of Martinique.) 



Bontekoe. Journ. of te gedenckw. 

 beschr. van de Ost. Ind. Reyse. 

 Haarlem 1646. 



(On p. 6 mention of the Reunion Dodo.) 



Worm. Museum Wormianum. 



(On pp. 300, 301, lib. Ill, description and 

 figure of a Great Auk from the Faroe 

 Islands.) 



Histoire Naturelle et Morale 

 des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique. 

 Enrichie de pleusieurs belles figures 

 des Raretez les plus considerables 

 qui y sont d'ecrites. Avec un 

 vocabulaire caraibe. Rotterdam 1658. 



(The title-page has no author's name, but 

 according to Pere du Tertre the author is 

 " Le Sieur de Rochefort, Ministre de 

 Rotterdam." Contains important notes on 

 former bird-life on the Antilles.) 



1665. The same. Second Edition. 

 Rotterdam 1665. 



*1638 



i 1640. 



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1646. 



1655. 

 1658. 



