1722. Labat, Jean Baptiste. Nouveau Voyage aux Iles de l'Amérique contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays. Paris 1722. 6 vols.
(In Vol. II, chapter VIII, the different species of Parrots are described, and it is stated that each island had three kinds, viz., an "Aras," a "Perroquet" and a "Perrique," evidently meaning a Macaw, an Amazona and a Conurus.)
1742. Nouvelle Edition. 8 vols.
1752. Moehring. Avium Genera.
(In this ominous work, which, through an article by Poche in Zool. Anz. 1904, has recently caused so much quite unnecessary disturbance among nomenclatorists—cf. Hartert, Zool. Anz. 1904, p. 154, and Proc. IV. Int. Orn. Congress, pp. 276-283. The Dodo is mentioned under the name "Raphus.")
1763. L'Abbé de la Caille. Journal Historique du Voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-espérance.
(Some birds from Mauritius mentioned, but no descriptions.)
1773. Voyage a l'isle de France, à l'isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne Espérance, etc. Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature et sur les hommes. Par un officier du roi. Neuchatel 1773.
1775. A voyage to the island of Mauritius, etc. By a French Officer. (Translation of the above).
(Lettre IX, page 67, treats of the "Animals natural to the isle of France.")
1782. Sonnerat. Voyage aux iles orientales et à la Chine. Two volumes, 1782.
(In Volume II, on plate 101, opposite page 176, the extinct Alectroenas nitidissima is figured, under the name of "Pigeon hollandais.")