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falls, its terraces, its shrubs and flowers and wooded winding paths, 

 delight the soul of man, and clearly prove what magic scenes can 

 be produced, when studied art goes hand in hand with nature. The 

 walk, canopied by evergreens of ancient growth, and at the end of 

 which a distant view of St. Peter's colossal temple bursts upon the 

 sight, has so much truth and judgment in its plan, that I question 

 whether its parallel can be found in the annals of horticultural 

 design. When St. Peter's dome is illuminated, whilst standing under 

 the wooded archway of this walk, you may fancy yourself on the 

 confines of Elysium. 



As an additional charm to the beauties of Pamphili Doria, the 

 birds are here protected, so that not one of them which comes 

 within its precincts is ever transported to the bird market at the 

 Pantheon in Rome, where individuals of every species known in 

 Italy, from the wren to the raven, may be had, ready trussed for 

 the spit. I myself, in the course of the season, have seen and 

 examined the following list of good things on the stalls, to regale 

 natives and foreigners in Rome.* Towards the close of April, 



* Wild boars, roebucks, red deer, hares, rabbits, pheasants, frogs, common par- 

 tridges and two other species, quails, water-rails, godwits, snipes, woodcocks, 

 dabchicks, coots, wild ducks, wild geese, golden plovers, green plovers, sand- 

 pipers, wigeons, teal, gargany, brown-headed ducks, sheldrakes, tufted Grecian 

 ducks, green linnets, goldfinches, brown linnets, grosbeaks, land tortoises, ring- 

 doves, rock pigeons, fancy pigeons, wagtails, robin redbreasts, common buntings, 

 gray buntings, cirl buntings, bluecap titmouse, oxeye titmouse, long-tailed tit- 

 mouse, blackcap titmouse, cole titmouse, blackcap sylvia, song thrush, blackbird, 

 blue thrush, jays, magpies, rooks, hooded crows, hedge sparrows, hawks, siskins, 

 common larks, black-throated larks, titlarks, smaller larks, judcocks, land rails, 

 combs from the heads of cocks, fowl and turkey legs and feet, buzzards, curlews, 

 small stints, redwings, pochards, falcons, civetta owls, whinchats, windhover hawks, 

 kites, stone curlews, jackdaws, shoveler ducks, gobbo ducks, hedghogs, water- 

 hens, spotted water-hens, bitterns, mergansers, stormcocks, porcupines, foxes, 

 goats, kids, yellow wagtails, fieldfares, hooting owls, horned owls, bam owls, 

 wheatears. redstarts (three species), nightingales, yellow-breasted chats, stonechats, 

 brown-headed shrikes, common shrikes, little terns, gulls, Guinea fowls, goat- 

 suckers, eggs from the ovarium of all sizes, wind eggs, larger white egret, common 

 heron, turkeys, guts of turkeys and common fowls, swifts, swallows, starlings, 

 little bitterns, white-winged bitterns, large bitterns, bullfinches, chaffinches, water 

 tortoises, turtle-doves, water rails, shags, red-throated mergansers, badgers, lesser 

 spotted woodpeckers, smallest woodpeckers, green woodpeckers, small white- 



