248 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



the addresses for future convenience — M. Grasselli, Via di 

 Po, No. 19. 



With the Museum, founded by BoneUi, I was especially 

 pleased, both on account of the superb collection of Egypt- 

 ian remains, and on account of the birds. They are dis- 

 played in excellent galleries, but I was sorry to see some 

 of the specimens ticketed wrong. There was a very good 

 Great Auk, and a melanism of a Woodcock, being the fifth 

 melanism that I have seen, though so rare.* The "Ibis" 

 says that the whole of the Marchesa Antinori's Abyssinian 

 collection is here, (Ibis, 1864, p. 410,) and I noticed some 

 hybrids between Corvns comix and C. corone, to which 

 allusion is made in the "Ibis" for 1870, p. 450. 



From Turin to Bologna was but a short journey. As soon 

 as I was installed at my hotel I went to visit the bird 

 market, where I saw nine species which I had not seen at 

 Turin, — Yellow Hammer, Crested Lark, Wren, Nuthatch, 

 Starling, Rook, Teal, and Pintail. Here, to complete my 

 list of market birds, let me give the names of the live ones 

 which I saw for sale in cages at Turin and Bologna. Barn 

 Owl, Little Owl, Nightingale, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Serin, 

 Brambling, Linnet, Ortolan, Hoopoe, Magpie,t Greater- 

 spotted Woodpecker, and Turtle Dove. 



Bolocfiia is remarkable for its leanins; towers. There are 



* I think if any further argument was needed for Sabine's Snipe not 

 being a good species — and there are still a good many sanguine people 

 who stand up for it — we have it in the discovery that the Woodcock is 

 liable to melanism, and I believe also the Great Snipe and the Jack 

 Snipe. 



■f How many interesting birds may be discovered even in grimy 

 London by those who know how to use their eyes. In Regent's Park 

 I have more than once seen the shy Magpie, a bird I may remark 

 which is not included in a list of thirty-eight species by Mr. H. Smith 

 in the " Field," (November 28th, 1874,) nor in another of fifty-seven in 

 the P. Z. S. (1863, p. 159). 



