The Roller called Pica marina in Italy. 1 9 



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 Pamj)hili 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.* To- 

 wards the close of April, the walks of Pamphili Doria resound 

 with the sweet notes of the nightingale both day and night ; 

 and, from February to mid- July, the thrush and blackbird pour 

 forth incessant strains of melody. 



There stands in this enclosure a magnificent grove of stone 

 pines, vast in their dimensions, and towering in their height. 

 Here the harmless jackdaw nestles, here the hooded crow is 

 seen, here the starling breeds in numbers, and here the roller, 

 decked in all the brilliant plumage of the tropics, comes to seek 

 his daily fare. But, as far as I could perceive, after two seasons 



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

 partridges 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, 

 ringdoves, rock pigeons, fancy pigeons, wagtails, robin redbreasts, common 

 buntings, grey buntings, cirl buntings, bluecap titmouse, oxeye titmouse, long- 

 tailed titmouse, 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, hedgehogs, water hens, spotted water hens, bitterns, mergansers, 

 stormcocks, porcupines, foxes, goats, kids, yellow wagtails, fieldfares, hooting 

 owls, horned owls, barn owls, wheatears, redstarts three species, nightingales, 

 yellow'breasted chats, stonechats, brown-headed shrikes, common shrikes, 

 little terns, gulls, Guinea fowls, goatsuckers, 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-throated mergansers, common 

 wrens, common gold-crested wrens, splendid golden crested wrens, house spar- 

 rows, mountain sparrows, mountain sparrows with yellow speck on the throat, 

 olive-throated bunting, crested grebes, Canary birds, hoopoes, rollers, bee- 

 eaters, golden orioles. Add to this list butcher's meat of all descriptions, and 

 the finest fruits and vegetables, and flowers. By the custom-house report, 

 seventeen thousand quails have enteretl Rome in one day. 



N.B. If a man cannot get fat in this city at a very moderate expense, it 

 must be his own fault. 



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