THE ROLLER. 29 



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 in- 

 cessant strains of melody* 



There stands in this inclosure a magnificent 



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, wheat ears, redstarts, three species, nightingales, 

 yellow-breasted chats, stonechats, brown-headed shrikes, com- 

 mon 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 sparrows, 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. 



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

 expense, it must be his own fault. 



