Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.

Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons, London for Thomas Reeves, [?1852-1856]. . Pair of chromolithgraph plates of Birds, printed in colour and finished by hand. Mounted, overall size: 73cm by 54cm. Birds depicted: Pica Chrysops, Pica Azurea and Carrulus Cristatellus (Crotophaga Major, Coccyzus Vetulus and Coccyzus Cayannus.) 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. Sitwell Fine Bird Books: 90