Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical timesRothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
Birds; Extinct birds
(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 Orientalischen 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 1601. 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 Réunion Dodo.)
1626. SIR THOMAS HERBERT. A relation of some years' Travaile.
(First mention of _Aphanapteryx bonasia_.)
1635. NIEREMBERG. Joannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Naturae,
maxime peregrinae, libris XVI 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).
*1638 and 1651. CAUCHE. Rélations véritables et curieuses de l'isle de
Madagascar. (Two editions.)
(See _Aphanapteryx bonasia_.)
1640. PÈRE BOUTON. Relation de l'établ. des Français dep. 1635, en
l'ile Martinique, l'vne des antilles de l'Amérique.
(Describes, among other birds, the Aras and Parrots of the island
of Martinique.)
1646. BONTEKOE. Journ. of te gedenckw. beschr. van de Ost. Ind. Reyse.
Haarlem 1646.
(On p. 6 mention of the Réunion Dodo.)
1655. WORM. Museum Wormianum.
(On pp. 300, 301, lib. III, description and figure of a Great Auk
from the Faroe Islands.)
1658. HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET MORALE DES ILES ANTILLES DE L'AMÉRIQUE.
Enrichie de pleusieurs belles figures des Raretez les plus
considerables qui y sont d'écrites. Avec un vocabulaire caraïbe.
Rotterdam 1658.
(The title-page has no author's name, but according to Père 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. {xvii}
1658. BONTIUS. Gulielmi Pisonis Medici Amstelaedamensis de Indiae
Utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim. Third Part: Jacobi
Bontii, medici civitatis Bataviae Novae in Java Ordinarii, Historiae
Natur. et Medici Indiae Orientalis libri sex.
(On p. 70 an excellent figure of the Dodo. Caput XVII. Appendix: De
Dronte, aliis Dod-aers.)
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