The Civetta. or Little Italian Owl. 



301 



T. Birchmore .... 



A. Begbie, Beaumont Lodge - 



M. Macqueen, ditto ... 



T. Ansell, ditto . 



J. Gaul, gardener, Eton ... 



J. Reid 



J. Arkle 



G. Patrick .... 



From Messrs. Law and Co. 



Received by Mr. William Godsall, nur- 

 seryman, Hereford ... 



Mr. Burn, Tottenham Park 



Mr. Perry, Sandford Priory 



Mr. Lindsay, Highclere - 



Mr. Thomas, gardener to Sir J. Holly- 

 comb . 



Mr. Clark, gardener, Compton Garden 



A. Holland, under-gardener 



J. Mitchell, gardener, Trimmington 

 House, Barnstable - 



J. Griffin, under-gardener, ditto 



J. Mallet, gardener, Rickington, ditto - 



J. Mark, gardener, Arlington Court - 



in a letter from R. Glendinning 



Collected by W. Taylor, Thainston, 

 Aberdeenshire - 



FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. 

 Collected by M. C. Ranch of Vienna. 



Freiherr Sigmund von Proney, K.K 



Kammerer, Corr. Mem. of the Lond 



Hort. Soc. 5fcm. 

 Johan Georg Heller, gardener to Baron 



Carl von Hiigel, 2f. - 

 Christian Cester, gardener to Prince 



Dietrichstein, 2f. . - 



John K. Rosenthal, nurseryman, 3f. 

 Joseph Held, nurseryman, 5f. - 

 Friedrick Jos. Mullbek, K.K. Militair 



Comissair, 5f. . 

 M. Kleyle, If. - 

 Zahlbruckner, If. - 



Joseph Stiegler, gardener to Count 



Mailathsike, Hungary 

 Baron Jacquin, Sf. - - . 



Charles Rauch, of. 



& s. d. 



2 



5 



1 



1 



1 

 5 <J 



2 6 

 2 6 



2 11 6 



5 



5 



5 



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4 

 6 

 10 





 6 

 



10 

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9 

 10 

 10 





 

 



Count F. Harrach 



J. B. Rupprecht 



Kher - 



F. Wauk 



J. Krammer - 



C. Riegler 



H. W. Scholt - 



P. Welle 



J. Boos 



J. Haker 



J. Schroder 



F. Schenerman 



Peinter 



20fn. 

 If. 

 If. 

 2fn. 

 lfn. 

 2f. 

 2f. 

 2f. 

 2f. 

 2f. 

 2f. 

 If. 

 If. 



73f. 



7 6 



By M. J. Rmz, nurseryman, Frankfort. 

 Collected there - - - - 15 



By P. D. Falberg, Copenhagen. 



Homemann, Prof, of Bot. 



Schouw, ditto - 



Lady Georgia Schouw - 



P. D. Falberg, Ass. of the Bank 



Wibster - 



Moerch, botanical gardener 



Petersen, court gardener 



Ohlsen, seedsman 



Hintze, ditto ... 



Dannekert, ditto ... 



Mols, seedsman ... 



Rhee, ditto ... 



Grimmenstein, ditto 



Asmussar, gardener 



Koch, ditto - 



Ohlsen, ditto - 



Eltzholtz, ditto - - - 



M. Schiderdt, Copenhagen 



France. 



Mr. Thos. Blackie, (native of Scotland) 



8. Rue des Vignes, Paris, 7f. - 5 10 







5 











5 











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101 7 4 

 79 18 6 



Total £ 181 5 10 



The names of a number of subscribers which ought to have appeared along with the others in the 

 above list are not given ; either because they have never been sent to us, or because we have lost or 

 mislaid them. Should they, or any corrections to the names of persons or places given, be sent in 

 the course of a month, we will print them in a supplementary list. 



Art. II. The Civetta, or Little Italian 0vol.* By Charles 

 Waterton, Esq. 



This diminutive rover of the night is much prized by the 

 gardeners of Italy for its uncommon ability in destroying insects, 

 snails, slugs, reptiles, and mice. There is scarcely an out-house 

 -in the gardens and vineyards of that country which is not te- 

 nanted by the civetta. It is often brought up tame from the 

 nest; and in the month of September is sold for a dollar to 

 sportsmen, who take it with them in their excursions through 

 the country, to look for larks and other small birds. Perched 

 on the top of a pole, it attracts their notice and draws them 

 within the fatal range of gunshot by its most singular gestures ; 



* See a correct description of this bird in the Ornitologia Toscana, vol. i. 

 p. 76., by Professor Paolo Savi. 



