PASSING NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF ITALY. 



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Kestrel 



Song Thrush 



Missel Thrush 



Redwing 



Ring Ouzel 



Fieldfare 



Blue Thrush 



Grey Wagtail 



White Wagtail 



Water Pipit 



Meadow Pipit 



Meadow Bunting 



Cirl Bunting 



Italian Sparrow 



Tree Sparrow 



Chaffinch 



Hawfinch 



Stonechat 



Robin 



Alpine Accentor (eight) 



Great Titmouse 



Green Woodpecker 



Jay 



Magpie 



Alpine Chough 



Cornish Chough 



Quail 



Greek Partridge 



Red-legged Partridge 



Grey Partridge 



Pheasant 



Woodcock 



Snipe 



Water Rail 



Coot 



Shoveller 



Pochard 



Wigeon 



Goldeneye 



Mallard 



Red-breasted Merganser 



Black-headed Gull 



Though some of the birds herehi named would be hard 

 to an English digestion, for all this miscellaneous collection 

 purchasers would be found. I forget if it was at the market 

 that I saw a Snow Bunting, a fine old cock, but tailless, or 

 at the birdstuffer's, Carlo Bonomi, Via D'aorgennes, No. 41, 

 at whose shop I was shown a good many birds. Among 

 the rarest ones, which I was assured by him had been killed 

 in the vicinity, I have jotted down Temminck's Stint, Ring 

 Dotterel,* Lesser Ring Dotterel, Black Tern, Smew, (adult 

 male and female), Waterouzel, Penduline Titmouse, Scops 

 Owl, Rock Thrush, Little Crake, Little Bittern, and Nut- 

 cracker. 



There was another birdstufifer, and I may as well give 



* The following fact I had from Mr. Bates of Eastbourne. An egg 

 of a Ring Dotterel lay seven days on a shelf in his house, and on the 

 seventh he heard the chick begin to break the shell. 



