248 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
the addresses for future convenience—M. Grasselli, Via di 
Po, No. 19. 
With the Museum, founded by Bonelli, 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 avery 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 Corvus cornix 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. 
Bologna is remarkable for its leaning 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. 
+ 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). 
