64-87550. 64. Descourtilz, Ornithologie Bresilienne: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector, Muscipeta Coronata

Birds depicted: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector and Muscipeta Coronata.
Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father’s work Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles .