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skin, but there is a very fine local collection of 

 birds, beautifully set up by a girl who is devoted 

 to her work, and works exclusively for him. 

 Their great ornithological rarities are Audouin's 

 Gull, some rare Buntings, Falco Eleanorce, &c. 

 They have a fine specimen of Francolin killed 

 in Sicily, and obtained by Doria from a local 

 collection in that island. Doria gave me 

 Salvadori's book on the birds of Italy, very well 

 done and most interesting. . . . We went on to 

 Spezia, a magnificent bay, about the finest 

 scenery I ever saw ; there were many gulls — 

 Mediterranean Black-headed, Mediterranean 

 Herring, Laughing Gulls, and a few common 

 gulls. From Spezia we went to Leghorn, where 

 we only stayed one day, which day we employed 

 in going to see Pisa, a beautiful and very inter- 

 esting town. I saw the tomb there of old Savi, 

 the Beivich of Italy, but with a much greater 

 knowledge of birds. From Leghorn we came on 

 here, arriving on Saturday last, having had some 

 rattling breezes, going sometimes eleven knots, 

 with occasional dead calm and heavy seas. . . 

 The swarms of fishing-boats are astonishing ; I 

 have been out in the gig this morning trying 



